Čepo families are Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Grude area) and in Vrgorac.
Prevalence
About 260 people with faimily name Čepo live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Zagreb (60), Split (40), Osijek (40), Vodjinci in Vinkovci area (30), and in Orebic on the Peljesac peninsula (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1933 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.