In Croatia, Filipov families are generally Croats (from Vinkovci area ), very rarely Macedonians (from Split ), and barely Romanians (from Novigrad ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vinkovci area and in Vinkovci.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Filipov live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Retkovci in Vinkovci area (20), Vinkovci (15), Zagreb (<10), Visnjevac (<5), and in Split (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.