Stipančević families are Croats and they are mostly from Nova Gradiska area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Bosanska Gradiska area) and in Nova Gradiska area. In Mačkovac in Nova Gradiska area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Stipančević.
Prevalence
About 210 people with faimily name Stipančević live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Nova Gradiska (40), in Mackovac (35) and Dolina (15) in Nova Gradiska area, Zagreb (15), and in Breznica Nasicka in Nasice area (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Stipančević is present in four countries on three continents.
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.