Surname Prpa in modern Croatia

Prpa families are Croats and they are mostly from Drnis area , where they immigrated according to some sources from Bosnia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Drnis and Split. In Siverić in Drnis every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Prpa.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Prpa live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and two other places, mostly in Split (15), Siveric (15), Zagreb (<10), Drnis (<10), and in Sibenik (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Prpa is present in 12 countries on four continents. The family name "Prpa " is used by small number of people in the United States , small number in Canada , and small number of people in Russian Federation. "Perpa " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mile Prpa, Josip Prpa, Damir Prpa, Mili Prpa, Kristina Prpa, Branko Prpa, Marko Prpa, Nada Prpa, Jelena Prpa, Ivka Prpa, Tomislav Prpa, Anita Prpa, Ratka Prpa, Valerija Prpa, David Prpa, Martina Prpa, Greta Prpa, Ivica Prpa, Ante Prpa

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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