Lestón
surname · Latin script
Lestón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Notts, Derbys, and. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Lefstan, Lestan, Leston, Old English Lēofstān.
- ESSpain1 in 40K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 130K
- UYUruguay1 in 92K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
1,260 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leston in AR Argentina, ES Spain, BR Brazil and 4 more.
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)
Main GB Location (1881): Notts, Derbys, and. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Lefstan, Lestan, Leston, Old English Lēofstān.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lestón 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 1,260 | 1 in 40K | 1.3K | Leston | 64 |
| AR Argentina | 350 | 1 in 130K | 350 | Leston | 41 |
| US United States | 284 | 1 in 1.2M | 326 | Leston | 35 |
| BR Brazil | 220 | 1 in 962K | 220 | Leston | 38 |
| PT Portugal | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Leston | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | 39 | 1 in 215K | 39 | Leston | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 37 | 1 in 92K | 37 | Leston | 4 |
1,260 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lestón mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Notts, Derbys, and. relationship name from the Middle English personal name Lefstan, Lestan, Leston, Old English Lēofstān. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Lestón have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Lestón, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leston.
- Where is Lestón most common?
- Lestón is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 40 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lestón?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,260 people named Lestón, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lest%C3%B3nThe 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, “Lestón”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.