Surname Filipan in modern Croatia

Filipan families are Croats the family name originates from Bjelovar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Bjelovar.

Prevalence

About 180 people with faimily name Filipan live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 220 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Bjelovar (20), Miholec in Krizevci area (15), Martinac (<10), and in Krizevci (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least ten families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (4), Canada (2), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (1), Argentina (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Filipan (including: Fillipan , Philippan ) is present in 12 countries on four continents. The family name "Filipan " is used by some 100 people in Romania , small number in the United States , and small number of people in the Netherlands. "Fillipan " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Krešimir Filipan, Tugomir Filipan, Zoran Filipan, Veljko Filipan, Ivan Filipan, Marko Filipan, Robert Filipan, Ivanka Filipan, Hrvoje Filipan, Mihajlo Filipan, Danica Filipan, Branimir Filipan, Zoja Filipan, Marijan Filipan, Željka Filipan, Ivančica Filipan, Ljiljana Filipan, Kristijan Filipan, Vlatka Filipan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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