Surname Klepac in modern Croatia

Klepac families are Croats and they are mostly from Cabar. According to some sources they are from Herzegovina and Czechia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Cabar. In places Sokoli and Smrečje in Cabar every fourth inhabitant had the family name Klepac.

Prevalence

About 400 people with faimily name Klepac live in Croatia today, in 190 households. There were 610 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 28 cities and 37 other places, mostly in Zagreb (145), Gerovo (35), Rijeka (25), Delnice (20), and in Novska (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 24 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: France (18), the United States (3), Switzerland (1), Australia (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Klepac (including: Klepacz , Klepach , Klepatz , Klepác and Klepazz ) is present in 28 countries worldwide. The family name "Klepac " is used by some 2000 people in the United States , about 900 in Slovakia , and some 600 people in Czech Republic. "Klepatz " is used by small number of people in Canada and small number in the United States. "Klepazz " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Nataša Klepac, Jadranko Klepac, Goran Klepac, Drago Klepac, Ratimir Klepac, Nenad Klepac, Vedran Klepac, Ivan Klepac, Dinko Klepac, Jasenka Klepac, Renata Klepac, Dubravka Klepac, Domagoj Klepac, Hrvoje Klepac, Gordana Klepac, Mladen Klepac, Neda Klepac, Antun Klepac, Robert Klepac

Mentions in sources

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

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