In Croatia, Sterniša families are Croats (from the Island of Vis ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and on the Island of Vis.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Sterniša live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Podhumlje on the Island of Vis (<10), Cavtat in Dubrovnik area (<5), and in Komiza on the Island of Vis (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.