Surname Orepić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Orepić families are Croats (from Dubrovnik area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and in Dubrovnik area. In Stravča in Dubrovnik area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Orepić.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Orepić live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in four Croatian counties, in 6 cities and four other places, mostly in Stravca in Dubrovnik area (25), Dubrovnik (20), Zagreb (<10), Porec (<10), and in Ploce (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Orepić is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Đurđica Orepić, Nino Orepić, Regina Orepić, Nikola Orepić, Nedjeljka Orepić, Marija Orepić, Jadranka Orepić, Niko Orepić, Vlaho Orepić, Ives Orepić, Pavo Orepić, Ivana Orepić, Sanja Orepić, Maksin Orepić, Petra Orepić, Damjan Orepić, Mato Orepić, Veselka Orepić, Jelena Orepić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.

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