Surname Stopa in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Stopa families are generally Serbs, very rarely Croats (from Varazdin area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slavonski Brod and in Virovitica area.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Stopa live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties and two other places, mostly in Slavonski Brod (<5), Obrovac (<5), Slatina (<5), Split (<5), and in Muskovci (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Stopa (including: Stoppa , Stopha ) is present in 38 countries worldwide. The family name "Stopa " is used by some 4000 people in Poland , about 2000 in Brazil , and some 700 people in the United States. "Stopha " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Stopa, Dejana Stopa, Ivana Stopa, Dušan Stopa, Dragica Stopa, Stanko Stopa, Josip Stopa, Milica Stopa, Janja Stopa, Nikola Stopa, Ljerka Stopa, Ana Stopa, Ilija Stopa, Spasenija Stopa, Blagoje Stopa, Darinka Stopa, Prokop Stopa, Petar Stopa, Lazar Stopa

Mentions in sources

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

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