Petrović families are often Croats and they are mostly from middle Bosnia and according to some sources from Herzegovina (Ljubuski), Slovenia (Ormoz) or Hungary, less frequently Serbs and Roms (from Osijek area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Osijek. In Ravan in Middle Bosnia every second inhabitant had the family name Petrović.
Prevalence
About 9400 people with faimily name Petrović live in Croatia today, in 4200 households. There were 7400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in all Croatian counties, in 121 cities and 820 other places, mostly in Zagreb (1830), Rijeka (375), Osijek (325), Pula (285), and in Split (245).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over two hundred times, the first time 1683 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.