Stipaničić families are Croats and they are mostly from Senj. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka. In Sleme Skradsko in Delnice area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Stipaničić.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Stipaničić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Zagreb (15), Rijeka (10), Delnice (<10), Velika Gorica (<10), and in Umag (<10).
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.