Pavetić families are Croats and they are mostly from Lepoglava area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Lepoglava area and in Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 240 people with faimily name Pavetić live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 0 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Bedekovcina in Lepoglava area (85), Zagreb (35), Zidovinjak in Lepoglava area (20), Varazdin (15), and in Zlatar-Bistrica in Oroslavje area (10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Pavetić (including: Pavetic , Pavetich ) is present in 8 countries on two continents. The family name "Pavetic " is used by small number of people in the United States.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.