Pendić families are almost entirely Croats and they are mostly from middle Bosnia , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Middle Bosnia (Zavidovici area) and in Osijek. In Dišica in Middle Bosnia every third inhabitant had the family name Pendić.
Prevalence
About 260 people with faimily name Pendić live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 28 other places, mostly in Pula (35), Zagreb (30), Rijeka (25), Osijek (15), and in Valpovo (15).
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.