Surname Klepo in modern Croatia

Klepo families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Vrlika , rarely Bosniaks. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrlika and Knin. In Kosore in Vrlika every sixth inhabitant had the family name Klepo.

Prevalence

About 280 people with faimily name Klepo live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 15 other places, mostly in Split (60), Zagreb (60), Kosore (45), Djakovo (25), and in Dubrovnik (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Klepo is present in 13 countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Marina Klepo, Krešimir Klepo, Mićo Klepo, Ivana Klepo, Mirjana Klepo, Niko Klepo, Dragana Klepo, Katija Klepo, Denis Klepo, Jurica Klepo, Željko Klepo, Miroslav Klepo, Goran Klepo, Pavulina Klepo, Joško Klepo, Davor Klepo, Josip Klepo, Dijana Klepo, Marija Klepo

Mentions in sources

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

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