Peter families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area. According to some sources the family name if German origin, rarely they are Hungarians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Prelog area.
Prevalence
About 290 people with faimily name Peter live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 390 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 23 cities and 32 other places, mostly in Zagreb (70), Sveta Marija in Prelog area (55), Cerna in Zupanja area (10), Bilje in Osijek area (10), and in Osijek (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.
