In Croatia, Turcovich families are generally Italians (from Umag ), rarely Croats (from Pula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Umag.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Turcovich live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Umag (<5), and in Galizana (<5) and Peroj (<5) in Pula area.
Outside Croatia
Family name Turcovich is present in five countries on three continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over seventy times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.