Lesić families are Croats and they are mostly from Duga Resa area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and in Duga Resa area. In Dubravčani in Duga Resa area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Lesić.
Prevalence
About 240 people with faimily name Lesić live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 360 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 16 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Duga Resa (40), Virovitica (25), Dubravcani in Duga Resa area (25), and in Karlovac (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over sixty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.