About 10 people with faimily name Fister live in Croatia today, in households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Lukezi in Rijeka area (<5).
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.