Surname Lipovac in modern Croatia

Lipovac families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Banja Luka area (Bosnia), barely Serbs, and Bosniaks. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Banja Luka Region, Bosnia (Banja Luka area) and in Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 1000 people with faimily name Lipovac live in Croatia today, in 430 households. There were 430 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 50 cities and 114 other places, mostly in Zagreb (245), Slavonski Brod (115), Rijeka (55), Petrinja (30), and in Prezid (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 39 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: France (16), Australia (8), Sweden (5), the United States (3), Germany (3), Argentina (2), Switzerland (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Lipovac is present in 21 countries worldwide. The family name "Lipovac " is used by some 200 people in Syria , about 200 in the United States , and some 100 people in France.

Characteristic first names

Tatjana Lipovac, Zvonimir Lipovac, Vlatko Lipovac, Dubravka Lipovac, Ivan Lipovac, Larisa Lipovac, Nenad Lipovac, Božica Lipovac, Milena Lipovac, Mato Lipovac, Jelica Lipovac, Dijana Lipovac, Hrvoje Lipovac, Mirna Lipovac, Goranka Lipovac, Petar Lipovac, Atif Lipovac, Alenka Lipovac, Iva Lipovac

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1749 in source 18th Century Census.

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