In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village was inhabited by 900 Bulgarian Exarchists and 55 Muslim Albanians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 213. Kanchov notes the village as being bilingual in Albanian and Bulgarian, with the latter being the language spoken in the househould.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 213. According to the 1929 ethnographic map by Russian Slavist Afanasy Selishchev, Leunovo was a mixed Bulgarian-Albanian village.Афанасий Селищев. „Полог и его болгарское население. Исторические, этнографические и диалектологические очерки северо-западной Македонии“. – София, 1929, стр. 26.
