Fistanić families are Croats and they are mostly from Omis. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Omis. In Pisak in Omis every second inhabitant had the family name Fistanić.
Prevalence
About 140 people with faimily name Fistanić 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 7 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Split (30), Pisak (30), Omis (25), Mimice (20), and in Selca on the Island of Brac (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.