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]

1. Jablanica District (1:30)
2. Pčinja District (1:48)
3. Nišava District (1:52)
4. Toplica District (1:59)
5. Pirot District (1:71)
6. Zaječar District (1:72)
7. Pomoravlje District (1:78)
8. Braničevo District (1:95)
9. Podunavlje District (1:98)
10. 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) (born 1979), Serbian football striker
• Boban Stojanović (activist) (born 1978), Serbian LGBT 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) [ sr], a Serbian communist who served as the Secretary of the Presidency of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (died 2020)
• Nikola Stojanović (film director) [ sr] (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

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Stojanović.
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