Lesław
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɛswaf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lesław is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 3.9K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 1.2M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 22M
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
9,782 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lesław 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #740 | 9,782 | 1 in 3.9K | 10K | Lesław | 36 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Lesław | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 22M | — | Lesław | 4 |
9,782 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lesław Chlebekb. 1883PLPolish officer
- Lesław Bartelskib. 1920PLPolish writer (1920-2006)
- Lechosław Marszałekb. 1922PLnot in their usual namePolish director (1922-1991)
- Lesław Kroppb. 1936PLPolish wrestler (1936-2013)
- Lesław Ćmikiewiczb. 1948PLPolish footballer
- Lechosław Michalakb. 1956PLnot in their usual namePolish sportsperson and bicycle racer
- Lesław Podkańskib. 1956PLPolish politician and deputy
- Marek Pfütznerb. 1959PLnot in their usual namePolish physicist
- Lesław Grechb. 1972PLPolish footballer
- Lesław Żurekb. 1979PLPolish actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10K | #173 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 9.8K | #177 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2024 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2022 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2023 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2021 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2019 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2020 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2026 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Lesław?
- A machine transcription gives /lɛswaf/ (IPA) for Polish.
- Is Lesław a male or female name?
- Lesław 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.
- What are other forms of the name Lesław?
- In the etymology graph, it is recorded as a short form of Lechosław.
- In which country does Lesław have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 9.8 thousand people named Lesław, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lesław.
- Where is Lesław most common?
- Lesław is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lesław?
- In Poland, the national register counted 9,782 people named Lesław in 2026, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Lesław compared with other names?
- In Poland, Lesław is the 740th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lesław?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/les%C5%82awThe 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, “Lesław” — the 740th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.