Only a few people with faimily name Filippov live in Croatia today, in one household only. They are located in three Croatian cities only: in Umag (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Pula (<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.