Pećarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Otocac. According to some sources they are from Boka Kotorska. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Otocac and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 90 people with faimily name Pećarić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Covici (15), Zadar (<10), Hrvatski Leskovac (<10), and in Otocac (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.