Peti families are Croats and they are mostly from Koprivnica area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Koprivnica and Zagreb. In Prnjavor in Bjelovar area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Peti.
Prevalence
About 170 people with faimily name Peti live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Zagreb (45), Koprivnica (25), Djelekovec in Koprivnica area (20), Cakovec (10), and in Djurdjevac (<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.