Surname Žegura in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Žegura families are Croats (from Peljesac Peninsula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik area and on Peljesac Peninsula.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Žegura live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in two Croatian counties, two cities and four other places, mostly in Duba Peljeska on the Peljesac peninsula (<10), Zagreb (<5), Dubrovnik (<5), and in Trpanj (<5) and Orebic (<5) on the Peljesac peninsula.

Outside Croatia

Family name Žegura (including: Zegura , Zeguera ) is present in 10 countries worldwide. The family name "Zegura " is used by some 70 people in the United States , small number in Mexico , and small number of people in Colombia.

Characteristic first names

Vlaho Žegura, Miljenko Žegura, Anamarija Žegura, Žanina Žegura, Ivica Žegura, Jasna Žegura, Iva Žegura, Marta Žegura, Luka Žegura, Tere Žegura, Stipo Žegura, Anka Žegura, Nede Žegura, Ivo Žegura, Jure Žegura, Marica Žegura, Ladislav Žegura, Matija Žegura, Ivan Žegura

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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