Stojanović

Stojanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Cтojaнoвић, pronounced [stojǎːnoʋitɕ]) is a Serbian surname derived from the South Slavic masculine given name Stojan. Stojanović is the sixth most frequent surname in Serbia,[1] and is also common in Croatia, with 2,798 carriers (2011 census).[2]

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 78.9% of all known bearers of the surname Stojanović were residents of Serbia (frequency 1:139), 10.4% of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1:524), 3.3% of Kosovo (1:864), 3.0% of Montenegro (1:322), 3.0% of Croatia (1:2,197) and 1.4% of the Republic of Macedonia (1:2,362).

In Serbia, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:139) in the following districts:[3]

People
  • Anđelija Stojanović (born 1987), Serbian chess grandmaster
  • Aleksandar Stojanović (born 1954), Serbian football goalkeeping manager and former goalkeeper
  • Boban Stojanović (born 1979), Serbian football striker
  • Dalibor Stojanović (born 1989), Slovenian football midfielder/striker
  • Danijel Stojanović (born 1984), Croatian football player
  • Dejan Stojanović (born 1959), Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist
  • Dejan Stojanović (footballer) (born 1993), football goalkeeper from the Republic of Macedonia
  • Djordje Stojanović (table tennis), Captained Swiss table tennis team, leading them to victory in multiple cups.
  • Filip Stojanović (born 1988), Serbian football player
  • Goran Stojanović (born 1977), Montenegrin handball player for VfL Gummersbach
  • Ivan Stojanović (1829–1900), Catholic priest who wrote the book 'Dubrovacka literature' (1900)
  • Ljubiša Stojanović (born 1952), Serbian singer born in Leskovac
  • Ljubomir Stojanović (1860–1930), Serbian statesman, politician, philologist and academic
  • Mijat Stojanović (1818–1881), Croatian educator, ethnographer and folk writer
  • Mike Stojanović (born 1947), retired NASL and Canadian international soccer forward
  • Milan Stojanović (goalkeeper), Yugoslavian football goalkeeper
  • Milan Stojanović (midfielder)(born 1988), Serbian football player
  • Milka Stojanović (born 1937), Serbian soprano opera singer
  • Miloš Stojanović (born 1984), Serbian footballer who plays as a striker
  • Mirko Stojanović (born 1939), former Croatian footballer
  • Mladen Stojanović (1896–1942), doctor and Yugoslav national hero from Prijedor
  • Mladen Stojanović "Čakr-paša" (fl. 1876–85), Serbian brigand and rebel
  • Nenad Stojanović (born 1979), Serbian football player
  • Nina Stojanović (born 1996), Serbian tennis player
  • Petar Stojanović (composer) (1877–1957), Serbian violinist and composer of operettas, ballets and orchestral music
  • Petar Stojanović (footballer) (born 1995), Slovenian footballer
  • Radoslav Stojanović, PhD, a professor of law at University of Belgrade
  • Saša Stojanović (born 1983), footballer from Serbia
  • Slaviša Stojanović (born 1989), Serbian football midfielder
  • Slavko Stojanović (born 1930), former Croatian football goalkeeper
  • Sreten Stojanović (1898–1960), one of the most prominent Bosnian and Serbian sculptors of the 20th century
  • Stefan Stojanović (born 1988), Serbian football midfielder
  • Stefan Stojanović (born 1992), Serbian football forward
  • Stevan Stojanović (born 1964), retired Serbian Football (soccer) goalkeeper
  • Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac (1856–1914), nineteenth century Serbian composer and music educator
  • Suzana Stojanović (born 1969), contemporary Serbian Hyperrealist painter
  • Sven Stojanovic (born 1969), Swedish director of Serbian origin mostly involved with Swedish TV productions
  • Svetozar Stojanović (1931–2010), Serbian philosopher and political theorist
  • Traian Stoianovich (1920–2005), Serbian-American historian
  • Vesna Stojanović, Serbian former football striker

See also

References
  1. Најчешћа имена и презимена (in Serbian). Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. 2011.
  2. "Names and surnames in Republic of Croatia". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012. Retrieved 2013-09-08.
  3. Stojanović surname distribution
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