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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : from dialect lesiak ‘forester’.
  • Slovenian : topographic name for someone living in a forest or woodland, from les ‘forest’, ‘scrub’.
  • Slovenian : possibly also a respelling of Lisjak, a nickname for a cunning person, from lisjak ‘fox’.

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