Surname Rupa in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Rupa families are Croats (from Bjelovar area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slunj and Bjelovar.

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Rupa live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Veliko Trojstvo in Bjelovar area (15), Zagreb (10), Bjelovar (<10), Vodjinci in Vinkovci area (<10), and in Koprivnica (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rupa (including: Ruppa , Rupah , Erupa , Hrupa , Rupha and Rupaa ) is present in 53 countries worldwide. "Ruppa " is used by some 500 people in Indonesia , about 60 in the United States , and some 50 people in Finland.

Characteristic first names

Antun Rupa, Mile Rupa, Darko Rupa, Helena Rupa, Jelena Rupa, Nedeljko Rupa, Dražen Rupa, Mirko Rupa, Željko Rupa, Ana Rupa, Tomislav Rupa, Jura Rupa, Stjepan Rupa, Renata Rupa, Kristina Rupa, Natalija Rupa, Josip Rupa, Dalibor Rupa, Sanja Rupa

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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