Stilinović families are Croats and they are mostly from Gospic. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Gospic and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 440 people with faimily name Stilinović live in Croatia today, in 210 households. There were 500 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 32 other places, mostly in Gospic (115), Zagreb (115), Licki Novi (40), Zadar (20), and in Varazdin (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.