Surname Pilepić in modern Croatia

Pilepić families are Croats and they are mostly from Rijeka. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 230 people with faimily name Pilepić live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 300 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Rijeka (160), Zagreb (20), Kastav (<10), Marinici in Rijeka area (<10), and in Kostrena in Bakr area (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least 12 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (6), Canada (2), Australia (2), Argentina (1), and to Mexico (1).
Family name Pilepić (including: Pilepich , Pillepich and Pilepic ) is present in 7 countries on four continents. The family name "Pilepic " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Pillepich " is used by some 200 people in Italy and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ljubica Pilepić, Jurica Pilepić, Radoslav Pilepić, Zlata Pilepić, Viktor Pilepić, Ante Pilepić, Mirijana Pilepić, Slavko Pilepić, Aleksandar Pilepić, Damir Pilepić, Marin Pilepić, Višnja Pilepić, Dobrila Pilepić, Ivan Pilepić, Boris Pilepić, Vedran Pilepić, Sonja Pilepić, Valter Pilepić, Aleksandra Pilepić

Mentions in sources

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.

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