In Croatia, Leitner families are generally Croats (from Zagreb ), very rarely Macedonians (from Dubrovnik ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Leitner live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only threee Croatian places: in Zagreb (<10), Zaton (<5), and in Pitve on the Island of Hvar (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.