Léston

given name · Latin script

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

Léston is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Notts, Derbys, and. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Lefstan, Lestan, Leston, Old English Lēofstān.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 40K
  • UYUruguay1 in 92K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

1,260 people

Sources
148 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Leston in US United States, ES Spain, CH Switzerland.

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(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Notts, Derbys, and. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Lefstan, Lestan, Leston, Old English Lēofstān.

Sources 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Léston 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 Léston is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1,2601 in 40K1.3KLeston37
AR Argentina3501 in 130K350—1
US United States2841 in 1.2M326Leston148
BR Brazil2201 in 962K220——
CH Switzerland391 in 215K39Leston7
UY Uruguay371 in 92K37——

1,260 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Léston 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

What does the name Léston mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Notts, Derbys, and. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Lefstan, Lestan, Leston, Old English Lēofstān. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
Is Léston a male or female name?
Léston is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Léston have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Léston, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leston.
Where is Léston most common?
Léston is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 40 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Léston?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,260 people named Léston, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 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, “Léston”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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