In Croatia, Pečenjak families are Croats (from Kastav ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Middle Bosnia (Sarajevo area).
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Pečenjak live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only four Croatian places: in Zagreb (<10), Brodski Stupnik in Pleternica area (<5), Zdrelac on the Island of Pasman (<5), and in Cikovici (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.