Perec families are Croats and they are mostly from Bjelovar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar area and in Bjelovar.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Perec live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Sandrovac in Bjelovar area (40), Zagreb (10), Bjelovar (10), Varazdin (<10), and in Madarasevec in Ludbreg area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.