Lenće
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: DZS, 2021
Lenće is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Macedonia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Possibly an Americanized spelling of Hungarian Lencse, meaning ‘lentil’, or Lenke, from a pet form of Lenart (see Leonard).
- HRCroatia1 in 235K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 567K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
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 Lenće 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.
- North Macedonia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 235K (inferred from the name graph)
3,908 named Ленче
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)Locally spelled Ленче in MK North Macedonia, BG Bulgaria, Lenče in HR Croatia and Lenche in SE Sweden.
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)Possibly an Americanized spelling of Hungarian Lencse, meaning ‘lentil’, or Lenke, from a pet form of Lenart (see Leonard).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lenće 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MK North Macedonia | #326 | 3,908as Ленче | 1 in 544 | 3.9K | Ленче | 13 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 26as Lenche | 1 in 81K | 26 | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | — | 18 | 1 in 235K | 18 | Lenče | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 18 | 1 in 567K | 18 | Lenche | 4 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 490K | — | Ленче | 6 |
3,908 people counted by State Statistical Office — living population names. 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: State Statistical Office — living population names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 14 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lenće mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly an Americanized spelling of Hungarian Lencse, meaning ‘lentil’, or Lenke, from a pet form of Lenart (see Leonard). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lenće have the most bearers?
- In North Macedonia, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Ленче, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lenće most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lenće is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 235 thousand people — even though North Macedonia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lenće?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 18 people named Lenće in 2021, about 1 in 235 thousand residents.
- How common is Lenće compared with other names?
- In North Macedonia, Lenće is the 326th most common given name of 2,588 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/len%C4%87eThe 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, “Lenće” — the 326th most common given name in North Macedonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.