In Croatia, Hlap families are Croats (from Ivanic-Grad area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ivanic-Grad area and in Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Hlap live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only two naselja i to in Velesevec in Ivanic-Grad area (15) and Novo Cice (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.