Šipić families are Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj area and in Sinj. In places Vedrine and Ljut in Sinj area every third inhabitant had the family name Šipić.
Prevalence
About 570 people with faimily name Šipić live in Croatia today, in 210 households. There were 250 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 25 cities and 30 other places, mostly in Vedrine (210) and Trilj (95) in Sinj area, Split (60), Zagreb (40), and in Solin (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.