Žure families are Croats and they are mostly from Split. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split.
Prevalence
About 80 people with faimily name Žure live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in only four naselja i to in Srinjine (45), Split (35), Zagreb (<5), and in Gornje Sitno (<5).
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.