Ledvina
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Origin unidentified; perhaps Slavic, from the vocabulary word ledvo ‘hardly’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɫɛdˈvinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ledvina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 19K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 495K
- USUnited States1 in 544K
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 Ledvina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
611 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ледвина in RU Russia.
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)Origin unidentified; perhaps Slavic, from the vocabulary word ledvo ‘hardly’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ledvina 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 | 611 | 1 in 544K | 643 | Ledvina | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 554 | 1 in 19K | 554 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Ледвина | 58 |
| SK Slovakia | 11 | 1 in 495K | 11 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | — |
611 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 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ledvina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, kidney
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lawrence W. Ledvinab. 1880USAmerican politician (1880-1932)
- Jaroslav Ledvinab. 1922CZCzechoslovak architect
- Martin Ledvinab. 1978CZCzech musician
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 643 | #37,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 611 | #36,585 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 554 | #2,715 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 553 | #1,658 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 553 | #2,586 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 537 | #38,706 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 11 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Ledvina mean, and where does it come from?
- Origin unidentified; perhaps Slavic, from the vocabulary word ledvo ‘hardly’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Ledvina?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫɛdˈvinə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ledvina have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 611 people named Ledvina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ledvina.
- Where is Ledvina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ledvina is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ledvina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 611 people named Ledvina in 2010, about 1 in 544 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ledvina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ledvinaThe 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, “Ledvina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.