In Croatia, Rip families are Croats (from Djakovo area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djakovo area and in Djakovo.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Rip live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only four naselja i to in Djakovo (<5), Mandicevac in Djakovo area (<5), Makarska (<5), and in Karlovac (<5).
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.