Leskovar families are Croats and they are mostly from Pregrada. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdin.
Prevalence
About 1000 people with faimily name Leskovar live in Croatia today, in 430 households. There were 1200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 34 cities and 91 other places, mostly in Zagreb (295), Varazdin (75), Petrijanec in Varazdin area (50), and in Vinica (50) and Donja Voca (45) in Ivanec area.
Outside Croatia
At least 12 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: France (4), Australia (3), the United States (2), Austria (1), Canada (1), and to Peru (1). Family name Leskovar is present in 21 countries on four continents. The family name "Leskovar " is used by some 200 people in Germany , about 200 in the United States , and some 200 people in Argentina.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.
