In Croatia, Mendrila families are Croats (from Rijeka ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Kraljevica.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Mendrila live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in only five naselja i to in Rijeka (<5), Smrika (<5), Bakarac (<5), Kastav (<5), and in Sroki in Rijeka area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.