Family name origins & meanings
- Serbian or Croatian (Stanić) : a patronymic or metronymic from a short form of the personal names Stanislav (see Stanislaw), or its female cognate Stanislava, or any other personal name beginning with Stani-. The female short form Stana was sometimes given to a girl in a family where only girls were being born, because it was understood as a derivative of stati ‘stop’.
- Slovenian (Stanič) : patronymic from the personal name Stane, short form of Stanislav (see Stanislaw).