Surname Ćurin in modern Croatia

Ćurin families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Hvar. According to some sources they are from Crveni Grm in Herzegovina or from Slovenia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Hvar and in Split. In Gdinj on the Island of Hvar every fourth inhabitant had the family name Ćurin.

Prevalence

About 190 people with faimily name Ćurin live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in four Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Split (70), in Hvar (40) and Gdinj (35) on the Island of Hvar, Zagreb (30), and in Jelsa on the Island of Hvar (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 14 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Argentina (6), New Zealand (6), the United States (1), and to Australia (1).
Family name Ćurin (including: Curin , Churin , Currin , Curien , Chaurin , Cheurin , Chmurin , Tschurin , Currien and Chyurin ) is present in 51 countries worldwide. "Currin " is used by some 4000 people in the United States , about 2000 in South Africa , and some 200 people in Australia.

Characteristic first names

Alen Ćurin, Tomislav Ćurin, Sanja Ćurin, Katija Ćurin, Griša Ćurin, Alem Ćurin, Jurica Ćurin, Niki Ćurin, Zoran Ćurin, Taji Ćurin, Irena Ćurin, Lovro Ćurin, Vinko Ćurin, Vanja Ćurin, Alfons Ćurin, Ivana Ćurin, Juraj Ćurin, Herta Ćurin, Sandra Ćurin

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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