In Croatia, Štefanini families are Croats (from Buzet ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Pazin. In Paladini in Buzet every tenth inhabitant had the family name Štefanini.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Štefanini live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Paladini (<10) and Split (<10).
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.