Tepeš families are Croats and they are mostly from Pregrada area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pregrada area and in Zagreb. In places Strmec Humski , Rusnica and Klenovec Humski in Pregrada area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Tepeš.
Prevalence
About 590 people with faimily name Tepeš live in Croatia today, in 250 households. There were 750 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 34 cities and 56 other places, mostly in Zagreb (125), and in Klenovec Humski (50), Rusnica (50), Strmec Humski (40) and Hum na Sutli (35) in Pregrada area.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.