Lešnik
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Croatian: a hazelnut
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/leʃnik/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lešnik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 17K
- HRCroatia1 in 94K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
2,276 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lesnik 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)
a hazelnut
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lešnik is read(measured from records)
Lešnik is one spelling over 2 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.
- Croatian56%
a hazelnut
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Slovenian25%
hazelnut
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Lešnik 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 | — | 2,276 | 1 in 17K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | #109 | 1,343 | 1 in 1.6K | 1.3K | Lešnik | 28 |
| US United States | — | 355 | 1 in 937K | 359 | Lesnik | 15 |
| BR Brazil | — | 230 | 1 in 921K | 230 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 45 | 1 in 94K | 45 | Lešnik | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | — |
2,276 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Josef Löschnigb. 1872ATnot in their usual nameAustrian pomology and author (1872-1949)
- Zoran Lešnikb. 1936SISlovene politician
- Anton Lešnikb. 1937SISlovenian architect
- Sabina Lešnikb. 1965SIresearcher
- Robert Lešnikb. 1971SISlovenian automobile designer
- Tilen Lešnikb. 1996SISlovenian footballer
- Urška LešnikSIresearcher
- Uroš LešnikSIresearcher
- Bojana LešnikSIresearcher
- Mario LešnikSIresearcher
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.3K | #92 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 45 | #14,275 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 35 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Lešnik mean, and where does it come from?
- a hazelnut Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lešnik?
- A machine transcription gives /leʃnik/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Lešnik have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Lešnik, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lešnik most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lešnik is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lešnik?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,276 people named Lešnik in 2026, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Lešnik compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Lešnik is the 109th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lešnik?
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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%A1nikThe 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, “Lešnik” — the 109th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.