Surname Stepanić in modern Croatia

Stepanić families are Croats and they are mostly from Velika Gorica. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Velika Gorica and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 320 people with faimily name Stepanić live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Donja Lomnica (135), Velika Gorica (120), Zagreb (30), Velika Mlaka (20), and in Turopolje (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (2), Switzerland (2), and to Germany (1).
Family name Stepanić (including: Stepanic , Stepanich , Stepanych , Stepanick , Stephanic , Stephanick and Stepanichev ) is present in 23 countries on four continents. The family name "Stepanic " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 60 in Canada , and small number of people in Argentina. "Stepanich " is used by some 90 people in the United States and small number in Ukraine. "Stepanick " is used by some 50 people in Canada and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vesna Stepanić, Blanka Stepanić, Višnja Stepanić, Gorana Stepanić, Josip Stepanić, Robert Stepanić, Nenad Stepanić, Marko Stepanić, Mladen Stepanić, Igor Stepanić, Željko Stepanić, Ivan Stepanić, Roberto Stepanić, Krunoslav Stepanić, Ivana Stepanić, Stjepan Stepanić, Daniel Stepanić, Saša Stepanić, Blaženka Stepanić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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