In Croatia, Pat families are Croats (from Biograd na moru ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Pat live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only two Croatian places: in Biograd na moru (<5) and Bosna in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.