Petani families are Croats and they are mostly from Zadar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and Koprivnica.
Prevalence
About 200 people with faimily name Petani live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are only located in four Croatian cities and 7 other places, mostly in Zadar (175), Ladislav Sokolovacki in Koprivnica area (15), Zagreb (10), Sibenik (<5), and in Bjelovar (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.