Surname Stipišić in modern Croatia

Stipišić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Hvar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and on the Island of Hvar. In Vrbanj on the Island of Hvar every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Stipišić.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Stipišić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and four other places, mostly in Split (45), Vrbanj on the Island of Hvar (15), Zagreb (15), Hvar on the Island of Hvar (<10), and in Smokvica on the Island of Korcula (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (4) and Switzerland (1).
Family name Stipišić (including: Stipisic , Stipisich ) is present in four countries on three continents. "Stipisich " is used by small number of people in Argentina and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zlatan Stipišić, Julijana Stipišić, Renato Stipišić, Mihovil Stipišić, Angela Stipišić, Ljiljana Stipišić, Nevenka Stipišić, Petar Stipišić, Lovorko Stipišić, Ljubomir Stipišić, Blaženka Stipišić, Duško Stipišić, Darija Stipišić, Jakov Stipišić, Sanja Stipišić, Ivana Stipišić, Ivan Stipišić, Ivo Stipišić, Ante Stipišić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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