Štih families are Croats and they are mostly from Pregrada area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Slovenia.
Prevalence
About 230 people with faimily name Štih live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 310 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 33 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Zapresic (15), Darda in Osijek area (15), Samobor (10), and in Cakovec (<10).
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.