Leś: Surname History and Family Crest

Counting heads is the honest place to start with Leś. We do not guess at meanings: where the dictionaries are silent on Leś, the family's own records come first. A family Bible, a parish register or an emigration record often gives the first firm date for a Leś ancestor.

Leś ranked 49,914 in the 2010 US Census, with 420 people answering to the name. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames. Spain's INE counts 374 residents with Leś as first surname and 329 with it as second. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Lessa.

There is no single Leś family crest for all bearers; the honest first step is to find out which Leś line, if any, bore arms. Want more than a summary? See the Leś family name pack.