Surname Šturm in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Šturm families are Croats (from Petrinja area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Petrinja area.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Šturm live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Dugo Selo (<10), Varazdin (<10), Djakovo (<10), and in Kastav (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šturm (including: Sturm , Shturm , Stuerm , Szturm and Sthurm ) is present in 75 countries worldwide. The family name "Sturm " is used by some 40000 people in Germany , about 20000 in the United States , and some 5000 people in Austria. "Stuerm " is used by small number of people in Switzerland and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Deana Šturm, Zdenko Šturm, Ivan Šturm, Tomislav Šturm, Dražen Šturm, Damjan Šturm, Zrinko Šturm, Jelena Šturm, Goran Šturm, Biserka Šturm, Blaženka Šturm, Vlado Šturm, Hrvoje Šturm, Josip Šturm, Daniel Šturm, Mirjana Šturm, Lovro Šturm, Željko Šturm, Predrag Šturm

Mentions in sources

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

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