Filipin families are Croats and they are mostly from Daruvar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Daruvar area and in Pakrac. In Barica in Daruvar area every third inhabitant had the family name Filipin.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Filipin live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Barica in Daruvar area (35), Zagreb (20), Sirac in Daruvar area (15), Pakrac (10), and in Split (<10).
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.