In Croatia, Perat families are Croats (from Senj ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Senj and Varazdin.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Perat live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only five naselja i to in Zadar (<5), Varazdin (<5), Samobor (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Buzdohanj in Rijeka area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1933 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.