Stojanović (, ) is a South Slavic surname derived from the South Slavic masculine given name Stojan. Stojanović is the sixth most frequent surname in Serbia, and is also common in Croatia, with 2,798 carriers (2011 census).
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:Stojanović surname distribution 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
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
Goran Stojanović (born 1977), Montenegrin handball player Ivan Stojanović (1829–1900), Dubrovnik priest Ljubiša Stojanović (1952–2011), Serbian singer best known as Louis Ljubomir Stojanović (1860–1930), Serbian statesman, politician, philologist and academic Mijat Stojanović (1818–1881), Croatian educator, ethnographer and folk writer Mike Stojanović (1947–2010), NASL and Canadian international soccer forward
Milka Stojanović (1937–2023), Serbian soprano opera singer
Mirko Stojanović (born 1939), 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
Radoslav Stojanović, a professor of law at University of Belgrade Saša Stojanović (born 1983), footballer from Serbia
Slavko Stojanović (1930–2012), Croatian football goalkeeper Sreten Stojanović (1898–1960), Bosnian and Serbian sculptor
Stevan Stojanović (born 1964), Serbian football (soccer) goalkeeper Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac (1856–1914), Serbian composer and music educator Sven Stojanovic (born 1969), Swedish director of Serbian origin Svetozar Stojanović (1931–2010), Serbian philosopher and political theorist Traian Stoianovich (1920–2005), Serbian-American historian Vesna Stojanović, Serbian football striker
See also
Stojanovski, variant used in R. Macedonia Stojković Stojačić Stojmenović Stojić
References
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