Lech

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Origin and Meaning

Polish name from the Slavic tribe the Lendians, called the Lędzianie in Polish

Related Names

Lech
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Polish
Leszek
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Polish

Further Information

Lech is a name used among immigrants from the Poland, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 10 people were named Lech (percentage of first or only given name: 60 %) [2]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[3]
73 134 0 0 73 134
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
63 0 0
n.a.
63
Iceland Iceland[5]
12 25
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[6]
17
n.a.
0
n.a.
17
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
50
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
50
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Lech.


References

  1. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  3. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/