In Croatia, Stišćak families are Croats (from Duga Resa area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and in Duga Resa area. In Carevo Selo in Duga Resa area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Stišćak.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Stišćak live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and 7 other places, mostly in Karlovac (20), Belajska Vinica (15), Carevo Selo in Duga Resa area (<10), Zagreb (<10), and in Duga Resa (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.