Surname Pech in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Pech families are Croats (from Vukovar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vukovar and Zagreb.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Pech live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Zagreb (<5) and Vukovar (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pech (including: Pecchia , Pecchio , Pecchi , Petzsch , Peech , Pecchie and Phech ) is present in 67 countries worldwide. "Phech " is used by few people in the United States. "Pecchia " is used by some 2000 people in Italy , about 500 in the United States , and some 200 people in Canada. "Pecchie " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Jurica Pech, Vesna Pech, Ružica Pech, Kristian Pech, Mladen Pech, Dragica Pech, Vera Pech, Zlatko Pech, Siniša Pech, Paula Pech, Maja Pech, Vladimir Pech

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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