In Croatia, Peja families are Roms (from Novska ).
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Peja 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 threee naselja i to in Metkovic (<5), Novska (<5), and in Zetkan in Vrbovec area (<5).
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.