In Croatia, Lippe families are Croats (from Opatija ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Opatija.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Lippe live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Opatija (<10) and Zagreb (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1943 in source Directorium ARCHI-DIOECESI ZAGREBIENSI.