Lęża
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Lęża is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Leza, a habitational surname from Basque.
- UYUruguay1 in 53K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 70K
- ARArgentina1 in 251K
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)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
719 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Borrowed from Spanish Leza, a habitational surname from Basque.
Cited for this meaning 2
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Wiktionary
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lęża 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 719 | 1 in 70K | 719 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 599 | 1 in 555K | 599 | — | 8 |
| AR Argentina | 181 | 1 in 251K | 181 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 64 | 1 in 53K | 64 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 49 | 1 in 4.3M | 49 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 4 | 1 in 1.3M | 4 | — | — |
719 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 1
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lęża mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Leza, a habitational surname from Basque. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Lęża have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 719 people named Lęża, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lęża most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lęża is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 53 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lęża?
- In Spain, the national register counted 719 people named Lęża, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C4%99%C5%BCaThe 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 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, “Lęża”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.