In Croatia, Pecina families are Croats (from Zagreb ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Pecina live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Zagreb (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.