Filipec families are Croats and they are mostly from Lepoglava area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Lepoglava area. In Gubaševo in Zabok every ninth inhabitant had the family name Filipec.
Prevalence
About 230 people with faimily name Filipec live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 270 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Zagreb (95), Pustodol Orehovicki in Lepoglava area (15), Fuka in Vrbovec area (15), Samobor (<10), and in Bedekovcina in Lepoglava area (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Filipec (including: Felipez , Filipecz ) is present in 23 countries worldwide.
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.