Lesses
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: animal dung (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Lesses is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil. Lesses is also written Λεσσες in Greek.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 2 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: community-sourced
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Lesses in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)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)second-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ler
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Lesses is read
(measured from records)Lesses 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.
- English46%
animal dung
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese30%
second-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ler
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lesses in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Lesses counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 157 | — | — |
| US United States | — | listed | — | 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Lesses come from?
- second-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ler Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Lesses mean?
- In English, animal dung
- In which country does Lesses have the most bearers?
- Lesses is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
What do you want to know about Lesses?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lessesThe 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, “Lesses” — ranked 44648th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.