Surname Stošić in modern Croatia

Stošić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Orahovica area. According to some sources they are from Jastrebarsko area (Oresje Okicko), and rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sibenik and Zagreb. In Orešje Okićko in Jastrebarsko every second inhabitant had the family name Stošić.

Prevalence

About 860 people with faimily name Stošić live in Croatia today, in 400 households. There were 800 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 36 cities and 81 other places, mostly in Zagreb (135), Sibenik (90), Fericanci in Orahovica area (55), Rijeka (55), and in Rtina in Nin area (35).

Outside Croatia

At least 12 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (5), the United States (2), France (2), Germany (2), and to Canada (1).
Family name Stošić (including: Stosic , Stosich , Stoshich , Stoshic , Stosick , Stossich and Stoshick ) is present in 12 countries on four continents. The family name "Stosic " is used by some 100 people in the United States and small number in France. "Stosich " is used by some 200 people in the United States. "Stosick " is used by some 60 people in the United States and small number in Brazil.

Characteristic first names

Branko Stošić, Aleksandar Stošić, Denis Stošić, Dalibor Stošić, Zoran Stošić, Časlav Stošić, Mladen Stošić, Josip Stošić, Ivan Stošić, Miro Stošić, Karmen Stošić, Željko Stošić, Jelena Stošić, Nenad Stošić, Vesna Stošić, Biljana Stošić, Damir Stošić, Andro Stošić, Božidar Stošić

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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