Leško
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈleʃkɔ/(recorded in a dictionary) Slovak · from Wiktionary
Leško is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. habitational name for someone from a place called Lesko, named with Polish les, dialect form of standard PoUsh las ‘forest’. 2. from the personal name Leszko, a pet form of Lech.
- HRCroatia1 in 14K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 32K
- USUnited States1 in 94K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Leško itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
3,537 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lesko in US United States.
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)1. habitational name for someone from a place called Lesko, named with Polish les, dialect form of standard PoUsh las ‘forest’. 2. from the personal name Leszko, a pet form of Lech.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leško 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,537 | 1 in 94K | 3.7K | Lesko | 39 |
| CZ Czechia | 336 | 1 in 32K | 336 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 305 | 1 in 14K | 305 | Leško | 26 |
| PL Poland | 250 | 1 in 153K | 132 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 37 | 1 in 5.7M | 37 | — | — |
| MK North Macedonia | 23as Лешко | 1 in 92K | 23 | — | 2 |
3,537 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); State Statistical Office — living population 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)- Štefan Leškob. 1929SKSlovak athlete
- Ladislav Leškob. 1932SICroatian musician (1932-2007)
- Vladimír Leškob. 1950Slovak philosopher
- Marián Leškob. 1954SKSlovak publicist
- Dušan Leškob. 1956Slovak soccer player
- Ján Leškob. 1986SKSlovak footballer
- Dávid Leškob. 1988SKSlovak footballer
- Peter Leškob. 1991SKfootballer
- Adrián Leškob. 1995SKSlovak association football player
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)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 336 | #4,852 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 305 | #2,633 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 264 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #230,401 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Leško mean, and where does it come from?
- 1. habitational name for someone from a place called Lesko, named with Polish les, dialect form of standard PoUsh las ‘forest’. 2. from the personal name Leszko, a pet form of Lech. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Leško?
- It depends on the language: in Slovak /ˈleʃkɔ/ (Wiktionary); in Czech /lɛʃko/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Leško have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Leško, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lesko.
- Where is Leško most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leško is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leško?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,537 people named Leško in 2010, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Leško?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/le%C5%A1koThe 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, “Leško”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.