Surname Vipel in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Vipel families are Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sveti Ivan Zelina.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Vipel live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in only threee Croatian places: in Donja Zelina (<5), Goricica (<5), and in Paukovec (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vipel (including: Wippel , Wippell and Whippel ) is present in 14 countries on four continents. "Whippel " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Sebastijan Vipel, Grozdana Vipel, Dragutin Vipel, Štefica Vipel, Ljubica Vipel, Silvija Vipel, Ivan Vipel, Ana Vipel, Karlo Vipel, Jurica Vipel, Marica Vipel, Ankica Vipel, Jakob Vipel, Jana Vipel, Jela Vipel, Ljubomir Vipel, Ljuboslav Vipel, Marija Vipel, Pavao Vipel

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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