Uremović families are Croats and they are mostly from Gospic area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Cazins Region, Bosnia (Bihac area). In Baljevac in Cazins Region (Bosnia) every fourth inhabitant had the family name Uremović.
Prevalence
About 760 people with faimily name Uremović live in Croatia today, in 320 households. There were 440 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 42 cities and 74 other places, mostly in Zagreb (170), Ledenice (40), Zagradje (35), Rijeka (30), and in Crikvenica (25).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.