Surname Šurina in modern Croatia

Šurina families are Croats and they are mostly from Klanjec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Klanjec area. In Sveti Križ in Klanjec area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Šurina.

Prevalence

About 310 people with faimily name Šurina live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 300 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 23 other places, mostly in Zagreb (170), Sveti Kriz in Klanjec area (25), Osijek (15), Tuhelj in Klanjec area (15), and in Mala Erpenja in Krapina area (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šurina (including: Surina , Shurina , Shkurina , Schurina , Surinah , Shmurina , Shaurina , Suhrinah , Shturina and Suherina ) is present in 43 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Drago Šurina, Dražen Šurina, Jadranka Šurina, Željko Šurina, Zoran Šurina, Krešimir Šurina, Branka Šurina, Ružica Šurina, Zlatko Šurina, Jakša Šurina, Mladen Šurina, Božana Šurina, Ljubica Šurina, Fran Šurina, Mario Šurina, Boris Šurina, Gordana Šurina, Tugomir Šurina, Martina Šurina

Mentions in sources

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

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