Lemeš
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Croatian: plowshare
Lemeš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 937(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.8K
- ARArgentina1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 937 (inferred from the name graph)
116,934 people
recorded for this name
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)
ploughshare, plowshare
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lemeš is read(measured from records)
Lemeš is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Croatian73%
plowshare
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Czech18%
ploughshare, plowshare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Slovak14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lemeš in Slovak.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lemeš 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 116,934 | 1 in 1.8K | 117K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 3,615 | 1 in 937 | 3.6K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 3,213 | 1 in 14K | 3.2K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 1,142 | 1 in 44K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 296 | 1 in 1.1M | 366 | — | 2 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Lemeš | 6 |
116,934 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Lemeš come from?
- ploughshare, plowshare Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Lemeš mean?
- In Croatian, plowshare
- In which country does Lemeš have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 117 thousand people named Lemeš, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lemeš most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lemeš is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 937 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lemeš?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 116,934 people named Lemeš, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lemeš?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leme%C5%A1The 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, “Lemeš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.