Leco
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əɫkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 532K
- CZCzechia1 in 563K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- 1 in 532K (inferred from the name graph)
153 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Spain
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leco 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 | 153 | 1 in 2.2M | 155 | Leco | 95 |
| ES Spain | 94 | 1 in 532K | 94 | Leco | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 52 | 1 in 4.1M | 52 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Leco | 6 |
| CZ Czechia | 19 | 1 in 563K | 19 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 837K | — | Leco | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 60 | Leco | 12 |
153 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 155 | #106,477 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 153 | #114,424 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 151 | #120,768 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 94 | #28,724 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 94 | #28,647 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 52 | #102,017 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 19 | #55,458 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Leco?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Leco have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 153 people named Leco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leco.
- Where is Leco most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leco is densest in Spain — about 1 in 532 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leco?
- In the United States, the national register counted 153 people named Leco in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Leco?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lecoThe 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, “Leco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.