Stipić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Krajina , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosnian Krajina (Kotor Varos area) and in Western Bosnia (Tomislavgrad area). In Bilice in Bosnian Krajina every fourth inhabitant had the family name Stipić.
Prevalence
About 1900 people with faimily name Stipić live in Croatia today, in 700 households. There were 600 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 76 cities and 161 other places, mostly in Zagreb (345), Sesvete (95), Osijek (70), Zadar (65), and in Imotski (45).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1678 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.