In Croatia, Lendvai families are predominantly Croats (from Backa, Vojvodina ), rarely Hungarians (also from Backa, Vojvodina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Backa, Vojvodina.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Lendvai live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Zagreb (<10) and Rijeka (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.