Lešo

Name: Lešo: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10
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surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lešo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.

rarermore common

ZASouth Africa≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
USUnited States1 in 1.7M
SKSlovakia≈1 in 98K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lešo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
: 2 (measured from records)
Sources: 85 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LešoLatin

ЛесоCyrillic

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Leso

Locally spelled Leso in US United States, ZA South Africa, BR Brazil and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lešo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Lešo is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
ZA South Africa	—	≈3,500 est.	≈1 in 16K	—	Leso	17
IT Italy	—	≈430 est.	≈1 in 144K	listed	Leso	15
BR Brazil	—	200as Lezo	1 in 1.1M	200	Leso	26
US United States	—	199	1 in 1.7M	204	Leso	85
GT Guatemala	—	≈170 est.	≈1 in 99K	—	Leso	2
SK Slovakia	—	≈56 est.	≈1 in 98K	—	Lešo	12
FI Finland	—	30	1 in 186K	30	—	1
VA Vatican City	#374	—	—	—	Leso	1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lešo is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Croatian surname12 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Croatia, Sweden
Also written Leso, Лешо, Lesho, Лесо

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lešo under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Lešo have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Lešo in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leso.
How common is the name Lešo?: In the United States, the national register counted 199 people named Lešo in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
How common is Lešo compared with other names?: In Vatican City, Lešo is the 374th most common surname of 1,275 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/le%C5%A1o

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-10 and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lešo” — the 374th most common surname in Vatican City. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)