Surname Čutura in modern Croatia

Čutura families are Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Posusje area) and in Bosnian Krajina (Teslic area). In places Rastovača and Tribistovo in Herzegovina every sixth inhabitant had the family name Čutura.

Prevalence

About 420 people with faimily name Čutura live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 36 cities and 44 other places, mostly in Zagreb (145), Sesvete (35), Osijek (25), Split (20), and in Imotski (20).

Outside Croatia

Family name Čutura (including: Cutura , Chiputura , Chikutura , Tschutura , Ciutura , Chaputura and Chihutura ) is present in 21 countries worldwide. The family name "Cutura " is used by some 400 people in Germany , about 100 in the United States , and some 80 people in Italy.

Characteristic first names

Dinko Čutura, Ante Čutura, Marija Čutura, Miroslav Čutura, Ljubica Čutura, Petar Čutura, Vlado Čutura, Mladen Čutura, Igor Čutura, Željko Čutura, Jadranko Čutura, Ivan Čutura, Andjela Čutura, Gordana Čutura, Zoran Čutura, Ivica Čutura, Sofija Čutura, Slađana Čutura, Snježana Čutura

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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