Peretić families are Croats and they are mostly from Duga Resa area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Duga Resa area and in Zagreb. In places Tončići and Maletići in Duga Resa area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Peretić.
Prevalence
About 130 people with faimily name Peretić live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Karlovac (25), Zagreb (25), in Maletici (15) and Straza (15) in Duga Resa area, and in Trnovec Desinicki in Pregrada area (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.