In Croatia, Štignedec families are Croats (from Sisak ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak and Sveti Ivan Zelina.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Štignedec live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only five naselja i to in Sisak (<5), Zagreb (<5), Petrinja (<5), Blazevdol (<5), and in Pokupsko Vratecko in Petrinja area (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Štignedec is present in this form only in Croatia.
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.