Pečevski families are Croats and they are mostly from Lepoglava. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Lepoglava and Varazdin.
Prevalence
About 70 people with faimily name Pečevski live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 90 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and threee other places, mostly in Lepoglava (35), Djakovo (15), Ivanec (<10), Jerovec (<10), and in Varazdin (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.