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Ćuro

Ćuro. Attested in Spain, United States of America, Slovenia, borne by about 253 people in the registers this map holds.

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

KuroCueroZuroCzuroCuroe

Only sounds alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.

CurCaroCoroCuraCuriCurrCuryCuré

It is also the name of a place

3 places drawn, the largest being Cuero, Cuero, ŽuroŽuro — 1Cuero — 178Cuero — 7,115
Where those places are. A dot is a settlement whose name is this surname, sized by its population — not a claim that anybody of the name lives there. Phonetic neighbours are listed below but not drawn: putting a machine's guess on the ground would dress it up as geography.

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • Cuero United States of America pop. 7,115 a spelling of the name
  • Cuero Spain pop. 178 a spelling of the name
  • Žuro Croatia a spelling of the name
  • Coro Venezuela pop. 246,657 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
  • Caro United States of America pop. 4,099 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
  • Cure Italy pop. 89 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 3 countries: Spain, United States of America, SloveniaSlovenia — 7 peopleUnited States of America — 105 peopleSpain — 141 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. Blank is not absence. This draws the 3 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Spain

141 Borne — a state counted them — Frecuencia de apellidos, Censos de población (INE).

Whose archive to write to

26,146 of 35,936 volumes held for Spain overlap the 1440s, 1450s, 1480s, 1570s, 1590s, 1600s, 1620s, 1630s, 1730s, 1760s, 1770s, 1820s, 1840s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s and 2000s — the decades Ćuro is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Ćuro. The commonest kinds: Church and parish registers, Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration. See everything this atlas holds for Spain →

United States of America

105 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census.

Whose archive to write to

158,460 of 528,875 volumes held for United States of America overlap the 1880s, 1910s, 1930s, 1940s, 1980s and 1990s — the decades Ćuro is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Ćuro. The commonest kinds: Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration, Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for United States of America →

Slovenia

7 Borne — a state counted them — Family names, Slovenia, 2026 (SURS tables 05X1015S–05X1018S).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Ćuro in Slovenia, so it cannot narrow Slovenia's 1,585 volumes by date — see Slovenia's own page for all of it.

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

United States of America
Slovenia
  • Central Istria 8 eras Aquileia → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …

No record region is drawn yet for Spain — which is a gap in this atlas and not a statement about that country.

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