About 90 people with faimily name Leščić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Preseka in Vrbovec area (30), Zagreb (20), Sesvete (<10), Jastrebarsko (<10), and in Celine (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over fifty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.