In Croatia, Štoos families are Croats (from Klanjec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Klanjec area. In Lukavec Sutlanski in Klanjec area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Štoos.
Prevalence
About 40 people with faimily name Štoos live in Croatia today, in 18 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located and four other Croatian places, mostly in Zapresic (15), Zagreb (10), Velika Gorica (<5), Babina Greda in Zupanja area (<5), and in Kupljenovo (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.