Surname Lipak in modern Croatia

Lipak families are Croats and they are mostly from Glina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Glina and Sisak. In Prekopa in Glina every fourth inhabitant had the family name Lipak.

Prevalence

About 180 people with faimily name Lipak live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 250 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Prekopa (30), Glina (30), Zagreb (20), Veliko Svinjicko (15), and in Ivanec Bistranski (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Lipak (including: Lipach , Lipack , Lipachev , Lypach , Liepack , Lippack , Liepach and Lipaq ) is present in 14 countries on four continents. The family name "Lipak " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Lipack " is used by some 60 people in the United States. "Liepack " is used by some 80 people in Germany and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Đurđica Lipak, Krunoslav Lipak, Ivanka Lipak, Marijan Lipak, Štefica Lipak, Martin Lipak, Ivan Lipak, Karmena Lipak, Vladimir Lipak, Koraljka Lipak, Tihomir Lipak, Nada Lipak, Dunja Lipak, Danijela Lipak, Danijel Lipak, Anita Lipak, Josip Lipak, Željko Lipak, Marijana Lipak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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