Surname Filipek in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Filipek families are Croats (from Ivanec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ivanec area and in Varazdin. In Druškovec in Ivanec area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Filipek.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Filipek live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and threee other places, mostly in Druskovec in Ivanec area (10), Ivanec (<5), Novaki in Ivanec area (<5), Prosenik Zacretski (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Filipek (including: Filipec , Filípek , Philipek , Filipeck , Fylipek and Philippek ) is present in 26 countries worldwide. The family name "Filipek " is used by some 10000 people in Poland , about 2000 in the United States , and some 600 people in Czech Republic. "Philipek " is used by few people in the United States. "Filipeck " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Josip Filipek, Slaven Filipek, Tihomir Filipek, Stjepan Filipek, Zeljko Filipek, Nevenko Filipek, Bara Filipek, Katarina Filipek, Štefanija Filipek, Andrija Filipek, Verica Filipek, Dalibor Filipek, Ciril Filipek, Vjekoslav Filipek, Veronika Filipek, Dragica Filipek, Ana Filipek, Blaž Filipek, Jagica Filipek

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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