In Croatia, Čupen families are Croats (from Djurdjevac area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Virovitica and in Djurdjevac area.
Prevalence
About 70 people with faimily name Čupen live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 8 other places, mostly in Virovitica (15), in Pitomaca (10) and Klostar Podravski (10) in Djurdjevac area, Zagreb (<10), and in Krizevci (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.