Surname Đipalo in modern Croatia

Đipalo families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Sinj , less frequently Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj and in Djurdjevac area. In Lučane in Sinj every tenth inhabitant had the family name Đipalo.

Prevalence

About 350 people with faimily name Đipalo live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 310 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Lucane (110), Split (40), Zagreb (20), Sinj (20), and in Kalinovac in Djurdjevac area (15).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Australia (1) and the United States (1).
Family name Đipalo (including: Dipalo , Djipalo , Gjipalo and Dipallo ) is present in 13 countries worldwide. "Dipalo " is used by some 400 people in Italy , about 400 in the United States , and small number of people in Canada. "Dipallo " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zlatko Đipalo, Vedran Đipalo, Miroslav Đipalo, Mihael Đipalo, Ivan Đipalo, Mario Đipalo, Josip Đipalo, Slavica Đipalo, Saša Đipalo, Tomislav Đipalo, Ivica Đipalo, Darko Đipalo, Šimun Đipalo, Tihomir Đipalo, Petar Đipalo, Milan Đipalo, Marija Đipalo, Goran Đipalo, Zvjezdana Đipalo

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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