Surname Hrupec in modern Croatia

Hrupec families are Croats and they are mostly from Ludbreg area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sveti Ivan Zelina.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Hrupec live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Sulinec (30), Kapela Podravska in Ludbreg area (25), Zagreb (10), Mali Bukovec in Ludbreg area (<10), and in Koprivnica (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Hrupec is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Vjekoslav Hrupec, Dario Hrupec, Damir Hrupec, Krešimir Hrupec, Krunoslav Hrupec, Stjepan Hrupec, Marina Hrupec, Zlatica Hrupec, Miroslav Hrupec, Snježana Hrupec, Ivica Hrupec, Božidar Hrupec, Jasminka Hrupec, Josip Hrupec, Antun Hrupec, Marijo Hrupec, Dubravko Hrupec, Robert Hrupec, Neven Hrupec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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