Surname Šiptar in modern Croatia

Šiptar families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac and Koprivnica.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Šiptar live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, four cities and 10 other places, mostly in Djurdjevac (40), Zagreb (10), Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (<10), Grkine (<10), and in Kriz in Ivanic-Grad area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šiptar is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Lidija Šiptar, Ljiljana Šiptar, Danijel Šiptar, Tomislav Šiptar, Henkoslav Šiptar, Đuro Šiptar, Zvonimir Šiptar, Božica Šiptar, Marijana Šiptar, Martina Šiptar, Nenad Šiptar, Kristijan Šiptar, Katarena Šiptar, Sanja Šiptar, Željko Šiptar, Petar Šiptar, Irena Šiptar, Ivan Šiptar, Katica Šiptar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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