In Croatia, Lipai families are Croats (from Virovitica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slatina and Virovitica.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Lipai live in Croatia today, in four households only. They are located in only five naselja i to in Rezovac (<10), Virovitica (<5), Pula (<5), Varazdin (<5), and in Slatina (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.