Stipanov families are Croats and they are mostly from Solin on Dugi (Long) Island. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and on Dugi, Long Island. In Soline on Dugi (Long) Island every fourth inhabitant had the family name Stipanov.
Prevalence
About 170 people with faimily name Stipanov live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Zadar (60), Preko on the Island of Ugljan (45), Soline on Dugi (Long) Island (15), Zagreb (10), and in Rijeka (10).
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.