In Croatia, Pec families are Roms by relative majority (from Cakovec area ), less frequently Croats (from Djakovo area ), and rarely Hungarians (from Beli Manastir area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Djakovo.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Pec live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled. They are located in threee Croatian counties, two cities and 11 other places, mostly in Trnovec in Cakovec area (30), Podturen in Mursko Sredisce area (10), Dragotin in Djakovo area (<10), Cakovec (<10), and in Ostarije in Ogulin area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.
