Surname Lešić in modern Croatia

Lešić families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Zupanja area. According to some sources they are from the Island of Lastovo, very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zupanja area and in Vinkovci.

Prevalence

About 1000 people with faimily name Lešić live in Croatia today, in 430 households. There were 740 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 52 cities and 67 other places, mostly in Bosnjaci in Zupanja area (280), Zagreb (145), Zupanja (135), Babina Greda in Zupanja area (95), and in Split (40).

Outside Croatia

Family name Lešić (including: Lesic , Lesich , Lescic , Lessick , Lesick , Leshich , Lessnick , Leshick , Leshic and Lessich ) is present in 26 countries worldwide. The family name "Lesic " is used by some 500 people in Germany , about 200 in the United States , and some 200 people in Australia. "Lesich " is used by some 100 people in Argentina , small number in Ukraine , and small number of people in the United States. "Lessich " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ilija Lešić, Zdravko Lešić, Vedran Lešić, Josip Lešić, Nikolina Lešić, Boris Lešić, Tatjana Lešić, Antun Lešić, Zvonimir Lešić, Eva Lešić, Dragan Lešić, Siniša Lešić, Krešimir Lešić, Luka Lešić, Darko Lešić, Silvije Lešić, Ivan Lešić, Linda Lešić, Predrag Lešić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over seventy times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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