Stojanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Cтojaнoвић, pronounced [stojǎːnoʋitɕ]) is a South Slavic 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]
- Jablanica District (1:30)
- Pčinja District (1:48)
- Nišava District (1:52)
- Toplica District (1:59)
- Pirot District (1:71)
- Zaječar District (1:72)
- Pomoravlje District (1:78)
- Braničevo District (1:95)
- Podunavlje District (1:98)
- Bor District (1:99)
People
- Anđelija Stojanović (born 1987), Serbian chess grandmaster
- Aleksandar Stojanović (born 1954), Serbian football goalkeeping manager and former goalkeeper
- Boban Stojanović (footballer)
- Boban Stojanović (activist)
- 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), Austrian footballer
- Dejan Stojanović (musician), drummer for the rock band Smak
- 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 (1952–2011), 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 (1947–2010), retired NASL and Canadian international soccer forward
- Milan Stojanović (goalkeeper) (active in 1930), Yugoslavian football goalkeeper
- Milan Stojanović (midfielder) (born 1988), Serbian football midfielder
- Milka Stojanović (1937–2023), Serbian soprano opera singer
- Miloš Stojanović (footballer, born 1984), Serbian association football player who plays for Gyeongnam FC
- Miloš Stojanović (footballer, born 1997), Serbian association football player who plays for Red Star Belgrade
- 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
- Nikola Stojanović (politician, born 1880), a Serbian writer and politician (died 1964)
- Nikola Stojanović (politician, born 1933), a Serbian communist who served as the Secretary of the Presidency of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (died 2020)
- Nikola Stojanović (film director) (1942–2021), a Serbian director
- Nikola Stojanović (footballer, born 1983), Macedonian football defender
- Nikola Stojanović (footballer, born 1995), Serbian football midfielder and forward
- Nina Stojanović (born 1996), Serbian tennis player
- Petar Stojanović (composer) (1877–1957), Hungarian-born Serbian violinist and composer
- Petar Stojanović (footballer) (born 1995), Slovenian football player
- 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 (1930–2012), former Croatian football goalkeeper
- Sreten Stojanović (1898–1960), one of the most prominent Bosnian and Serbian sculptors of the 20th century
- Stefan Stojanovic (soccer, born 2001), American soccer player
- Stefan Stojanović (footballer, born 2001), Serbian footballer
- Stefan Stojanović (footballer, born 1988), Serbian footballer
- Stefan Stojanović (footballer, born 1992), Serbian footballer
- Stefan Stojanović (footballer, born 1997), Serbian footballer
- Stevan Stojanović (born 1964), retired Serbian Football (soccer) goalkeeper
- Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac (1856–1914), nineteenth century Serbian composer and music educator
- 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
- Stojanovski, variant used in R. Macedonia
- Stojković
- Stojačić
- Stojmenović
- Stojić
References
- ↑ Најчешћа имена и презимена (in Serbian). Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. 2011.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Stojanović surname distribution
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