Rapo families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Banja Luka area (Bosnia), rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Banja Luka Region, Bosnia (Banja Luka area) and in Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 140 people with faimily name Rapo live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Rijeka (15), Knin (15), and in Drljaca (10) and Cetvrtkovac (10) in Hrvatska Kostajnica area.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.