Surname Stipan in modern Croatia

Stipan families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Novi Marof. In Velika Paka in Ozalj area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Stipan.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Stipan live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 230 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Varazdin (20), Zagreb (15), Vidovec in Varazdin area (10), Strmec Remetinecki (<10), and in Split (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Stipan (including: Stiphan , Stiepan ) is present in 17 countries worldwide. The family name "Stipan " is used by small number of people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Moldova. "Stiepan " is used by small number of people in Austria and small number in the United States. "Stiphan " is used by few people in Brazil , few people in Panama , and few people in Tunisia , few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Stipan, Marica Stipan, Marina Stipan, Vlatka Stipan, Jakob Stipan, Katarina Stipan, Tomislava Stipan, Snježana Stipan, Mario Stipan, Anđelko Stipan, Zdravka Stipan, Andrea Stipan, Robert Stipan, Vladimir Stipan, Nada Stipan, Dragan Stipan, Antonio Stipan, Dalibor Stipan, Ines Stipan

Mentions in sources

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

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