Surname Žufić in modern Croatia

Žufić families are Croats and they are mostly from Pazin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and in Pazin area. In places Gržini and Gradišće in Pazin area every second inhabitant had the family name Žufić.

Prevalence

About 380 people with faimily name Žufić live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 270 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 34 other places, mostly in Pula (115), Grzini in Pazin area (65), Rovinj (35), Gradisce in Pazin area (30), and in Pazin (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 20 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Sweden (6), Australia (5), France (3), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Switzerland (1), the United States (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Žufić (including: Zufic , Zufich ) is present in 6 countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Stevo Žufić, Enco Žufić, Janko Žufić, Lidija Žufić, Žana Žufić, Vinko Žufić, Luciano Žufić, Aleksandra Žufić, Vladimir Žufić, Vilijam Žufić, Edi Žufić, Alojz Žufić, Christian Žufić, Livio Žufić, Vlado Žufić, Alfredo Žufić, Toni Žufić, Marino Žufić, Sonja Žufić

Mentions in sources

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

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