Šturlić families are Croats and they are mostly from Zagreb. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Donji Miholjac. In Vrhovec in Vrbovec every eighth inhabitant had the family name Šturlić.
Prevalence
About 190 people with faimily name Šturlić live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 270 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Zagreb (120), Velika Gorica (15), Ladislav in Garesnica area (15), Sesvete (10), and in Vrhovec (10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Šturlić is present in this form only in Croatia.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.