Šestanj families are Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ivanec area and in Varazdin.
Prevalence
About 140 people with faimily name Šestanj live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 0 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Koprivnica (30), Varazdin (20), Donja Visnjica (10), and in Vinica Breg (<10) and Fotez Breg (<10) in Ivanec area.
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.