Perhoč families are Croats and they are mostly from Cakovec area. According to some sources they are from Slovenia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and in Cakovec area.
Prevalence
About 110 people with faimily name Perhoč live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 20 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Mursko Sredisce (20), Cakovec (15), and in Zasadbreg (15) and Lopatinec (<10) in Cakovec area.
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.