Stipanić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Ugljan. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and Rijeka.
Prevalence
About 170 people with faimily name Stipanić live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Zadar (30), Zagreb (20), Slatina (15), Ugljan on the Island of Ugljan (15), and in Veli Brgud in Opatija area (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.