In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nasice and Vukovar.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Peto live in Croatia today, in households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in two Croatian counties, in one city and two other places, mostly in Varazdin (<5), Trnovec in Varazdin area (<5), and in Brela in Makarska area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.