Surname Stipković in modern Croatia

Stipković families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Korcula. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Jastrebarsko. In Svrževo in Jastrebarsko area every second inhabitant had the family name Stipković.

Prevalence

About 180 people with faimily name Stipković live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 16 other places, mostly in Zagreb (45), Vela Luka on the Island of Korcula (45), Rastoki (15), Rijeka (10), and in Svrzevo in Jastrebarsko area (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (4), Canada (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Stipković (including: Stipkovic , Stipkovich and Stipkovics ) is present in 11 countries on four continents. "Stipkovich " is used by some 100 people in the United States and small number in Argentina.

Characteristic first names

Franko Stipković, Zlatan Stipković, Dino Stipković, Rudolf Stipković, Goran Stipković, Ivan Stipković, Suzana Stipković, Željko Stipković, Slaven Stipković, Snježana Stipković, Alida Stipković, Miro Stipković, Božidar Stipković, Filip Stipković, Hildo Stipković, Ivica Stipković, Ante Stipković, Iris Stipković, Miralem Stipković

Mentions in sources

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.

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