Meter families are Croats and they are mostly from Imotski area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Imotski area and in Split.
Prevalence
About 340 people with faimily name Meter live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 230 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 23 other places, mostly in Donji Prolozac in Imotski area (75), Zagreb (50), Osijek (30), Split (30), and in Virovitica (30).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.