Surname Lesac in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Lesac families are generally Croats (from Vrbovsko ), very rarely Slovenes (from Rijeka ), and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovsko and Rijeka. In Lesci in Vrbovsko every fourth inhabitant had the family name Lesac.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Lesac live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, in 6 cities and two other places, mostly in Rijeka (20), Vrbovsko (<10), Zagreb (<10), Gorenci (<10), and in Delnice (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Lesac (including: Lesatz , Lessac and Lesach ) is present in 11 countries on four continents. The family name "Lesac " is used by some 50 people in the United States and small number in Australia. "Lesatz " is used by some 90 people in the United States. "Lessac " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Sintija Lesac, Danijel Lesac, Hrvoje Lesac, Alen Lesac, Andrija Lesac, Sanja Lesac, Alexandar Lesac, Mirjana Lesac, Boris Lesac, Tomislav Lesac, Ivona Lesac, Deana Lesac, Stjepan Lesac, Andrijana Lesac, Maja Lesac, Andreja Lesac, Milutin Lesac, Rida Lesac, Alenka Lesac

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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