Šiprak families are Croats and they are mostly from Bjelovar area. According to some sources they are from Turopolje. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sisak. In Bisag in Novi Marof area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Šiprak.
Prevalence
About 250 people with faimily name Šiprak live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 380 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Zagreb (120), Bjelovar (20), Rovinj (15), Velika Gorica (10), and in Nova Ploscica in Garesnica area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.