Leshin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: unexplained

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Pronunciation:

Leshin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.2Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M
  • RURussia≈1 in 230Kas Лешин

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 Leshin 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.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈610 named Лешин, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
130 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)

Uzbekistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
LeshinLatin(measured from records)
ЛешинCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Лешин in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UZ Uzbekistan.

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)

unexplained.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Leshin 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.

Where Leshin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia≈610 est.≈1 in 234K—Лешин99
UZ Uzbekistan≈230 est.≈1 in 161K—Лешин3
US United States1821 in 1.8M182Leshin130
GB United Kingdom≈58 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Leshin4
KZ Kazakhstan≈50 est.≈1 in 411K66Лешин21

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; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Leshin is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Chinese name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Le-Shin

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
  • Laurie Leshinb. 1966USdirector of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and former president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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)
FormalDear Leshin,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Leshin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010182#99,378
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000172#97,848
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020163#114,090
US United Stateswru 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 Leshin mean, and where does it come from?
unexplained. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Leshin have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 614 people named Лешин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Leshin?
In the United States, the national register counted 182 people named Leshin in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.

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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, “Leshin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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