In Croatia, Pesić families are Croats (from Pleternica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pleternica area and in Zadar.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Pesić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Slavonski Kobas in Pleternica area (20), Zadar (15), Zagreb (<10), Slavonski Brod (<10), and in Rijeka (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.