Lenski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from places called Lehce in Bialystok voivodeship or Lehcze in Bielsko-Biala voivodeship
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɫɛnski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lenski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 984K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 142K
- PLPoland1 in 174K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 142K (inferred from the name graph)
≈570 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from places called Lehce in Bialystok voivodeship or Lehcze in Bielsko-Biala voivodeship.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lenski 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Lenski | 52 |
| US United States | 338 | 1 in 984K | 364 | Lenski | 146 |
| PL Poland | 220 | 1 in 174K | 220 | Lenski | 2 |
| FR France | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 3 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Lenski | 16 |
| IE Ireland | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 400K | — | Lenski | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | Lenski | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Lenski | 1 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Richard C. H. Lenskib. 1864PLLutheran scholar (1864–1936)
- Arno von Lenskib. 1893PLGerman military officer (1893-1986)
- Lois Lenskib. 1893USAmerican children's writer (1893-1974)
- Leon Lenskib. 1903(1903-1982) actor
- Gerhard Lenskib. 1924USAmerican sociologist (1924-2015)
- Robert W. Lenskib. 1926USAmerican screenwriter (1926-2002)
- Hasso von Lenskib. 1942DEGerman actor (1942–2025)
- Richard Lenskib. 1956USAmerican evolutionary biologist
- Noel Emmanuel Lenskib. 1965USAmerican historian of antiquity (1965-)
- Matt LenskiUSAmerican film director
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 364 | #53,299 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 345 | #62,640 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 338 | #59,742 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 30 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30 | #69,815 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Lenski mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from places called Lehce in Bialystok voivodeship or Lehcze in Bielsko-Biala voivodeship. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lenski?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫɛnski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lenski have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 566 people named Lenski in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lenski.
- How common is the name Lenski?
- In the United States, the national register counted 338 people named Lenski in 2010, about 1 in 984 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lenskiThe 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, “Lenski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.