Surname Filip in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Filip live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Ludbreg (20), Zagreb (15), Lunjkovec in Ludbreg area (10), Novacka in Djurdjevac area (<10), and in Koprivnica (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least three families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (2) and Germany (1).
Family name Filip (including: Philip , Philipp , Filipp , Felip , Fillip , Fellip , Fillipp , Fhilip and Filiph ) is present in 172 countries worldwide. "Filipp " is used by some 600 people in Russian Federation , about 400 in Germany , and some 200 people in the United States. "Philipp " is used by some 20000 people in Germany , about 3000 in the United States , and some 1000 people in Austria. "Fillip " is used by some 300 people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Romania.

Characteristic first names

Tomo Filip, Barica Filip, Nino Filip, Tea Filip, Konrad Filip, Vesna Filip, Ivan Filip, Marinko Filip, Miroslav Filip, Ivana Filip, Klaus Filip, Marija Filip, Janika Filip, Ivica Filip, Maja Filip, Nikola Filip, Rahela Filip, Josip Filip, Marijan Filip

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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