Surname Čurko in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Čurko families are Croats (from Porec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Zadar. In Pršurići in Porec area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Čurko.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Čurko live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and two other places, mostly in Porec (<10), Musalez (<5), Markovac in Porec area (<5), Zadar (<5), and in Nin (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Čurko (including: Curko , Churko , Chepurko , Ciurko , Chegurko , Chipurko , Czurko , Churkoo , Tschurko and Csurko ) is present in 56 countries worldwide. The family name "Curko " is used by some 100 people in the United States , some 100 people in South Africa , and small number of people in Australia , small number of people in Lithuania. "Tschurko " is used by few people in the United States. "Chepurko " is used by some 2000 people in Ukraine , about 700 in Russian Federation , and some 60 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zina Čurko, Marko Čurko, Josipa Čurko, Branko Čurko, Dean Čurko, Sanja Čurko, Bruno Čurko, Alen Čurko, Irena Čurko, Branka Čurko, Marija Čurko, Ana Čurko, Luca Čurko, Ante Čurko, Ankica Čurko, Nevena Čurko, Leon Čurko, Lukas Čurko, Filip Čurko

Mentions in sources

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

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