Surname Surko in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Surko families are Croats (from Ivanec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Ivanec. In Koškovec in Ivanec area every sixtieth inhabitant had the family name Surko.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Surko live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in two Croatian counties, threee cities and threee other places, mostly in Cerje Nebojse in Ivanec area (<10), Sisak (<10), Varazdin (<5), Staznjevec (<5), and in Ivanecki Vrhovec (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Surko (including: Surco , Shurko , Szurko , Czurko and Shurco ) is present in 24 countries on four continents. The family name "Surko " is used by some 200 people in Belarus , about 200 in the United States , and some 100 people in Ukraine. "Szurko " is used by some 300 people in Poland and about 50 in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Damir Surko, Ivan Surko, Dubravka Surko, Filip Surko, Martina Surko, Mirko Surko, Milenka Surko, Zvonko Surko, Andrijana Surko, Ljubica Surko, Dragutin Surko, Josip Surko, Dragica Surko, Barica Surko, Štefica Surko, Nada Surko, Magdalena Surko, Jurica Surko, Luka Surko

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.

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