Surname Cipek in modern Croatia

Cipek families are Croats and they are mostly from Zapresic area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Zapresic area.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Cipek live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Jakovlje in Zapresic area (60), Zagreb (40), Sesvete (10), Samobor (<10), and in Ogulin (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Cipek (including: Zipek , Cípek ) is present in 7 countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Tihomir Cipek, Ksenija Cipek, Zoran Cipek, Stjepan Cipek, Đurđica Cipek, Gordana Cipek, Marina Cipek, Sandra Cipek, Dubravka Cipek, Davor Cipek, Ivica Cipek, Berislav Cipek, Mario Cipek, Zlatko Cipek, Kristina Cipek, Hrvoje Cipek, Karla Cipek, Zdenka Cipek, Velimir Cipek

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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