Šipuš families are Croats and they are mostly from Sisak. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak and Zagreb. In Ribari in Karlovac every tenth inhabitant had the family name Šipuš.
Prevalence
About 270 people with faimily name Šipuš live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 430 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 33 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Sisak (45), Viletinec (20), Ribari (20), and in Preloscica (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.