Surname Surać in modern Croatia

Surać families are Croats and they are mostly from Zadar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and in Zadar area. In places Murvica and Briševo in Zadar area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Surać.

Prevalence

About 280 people with faimily name Surać live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Zadar (75), in Murvica (75), Policnik (30) and Brisevo (20) in Zadar area, and in Zagreb (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Surać (including: Surac , Suraci , Surach , Surachi , Shurack , Suracci , Surache , Surack and Surachii ) is present in 24 countries worldwide. The family name "Surac " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Ukraine. "Surach " is used by some 100 people in Thailand and about 50 in the United States. "Suraci " is used by some 1000 people in Italy , about 600 in the United States , and some 200 people in Argentina.

Characteristic first names

Stjepan Surać, Ivan Surać, Vjekoslav Surać, Ante Surać, Sanja Surać, Silvija Surać, Nikolina Surać, Stojko Surać, Andrija Surać, Marijana Surać, Sendi Surać, Roberta Surać, Željko Surać, Danijel Surać, Ljiljana Surać, Iva Surać, Jurica Surać, Božidar Surać, Zorka Surać

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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