In Croatia, Pečner families are Croats (from Herzegovine ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek and in Herzegovina (Mostar area).
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Pečner live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Donji Miholjac (<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.