Legiša
surname · Latin script
Legiša is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia≈1 in 190Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia≈1 in 230Kfew records
- ITItaly≈1 in 20Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. 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.
- Croatia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Legiša 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 229K | — | Legiša | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Legiša | 4 |
| IT Italy | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 20M | — | Legiša | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 3 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)- Božena Legišab. 1920SISlovene died 2019
- Anton Legišab. 1921ITSlovenian Catholic priest
- Dragomir Legišab. 1925ITSloveno-Italian journalist and politician (1925-2014)
- Zvonko Legišab. 1947ITItalian cultural worker (born 1947)
- Peter Legišab. 1950SISlovene mathematician
- Matic LegišaSISlovenian researcher
- Špela Kozak-LegišaSIresearcher
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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
- In which country does Legiša have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 people named Legiša in Croatia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled legiša.
- How common is the name Legiša?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 people in Croatia have Legiša as their first surname, about 1 in 229 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Legiša?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/legi%C5%A1aThe 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, “Legiša”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.