Lipovec families are Croats and they are mostly from Petrinja area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Zagreb. In Cerje Tužno in Ivanec every fourth inhabitant had the family name Lipovec.
Prevalence
About 80 people with faimily name Lipovec live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 15 other places, mostly in Lekenik in Petrinja area (15), Cerje Tuzno (15), Zagreb (10), Varazdin (<10), and in Jurketinec in Ivanec area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.