L'Anglois
surname · Latin script
L'Anglois is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From French Langlois, from Middle French l'(le)+Anglois (literally “Englishman”).
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 5K
- UYUruguay1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 305 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Langlois in FR France, CA Canada, US United States and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- FrenchLanglois(measured from records)
- Middle Frenchl'le(measured from records)
From French Langlois, from Middle French l'(le)+Anglois (literally “Englishman”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Where in the world
(measured from records)L'Anglois counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #160 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 2.5K | Langlois | 305 |
| US United States | — | 7,513 | 1 in 44K | 7.5K | Langlois | 223 |
| CA Canada | #755 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Langlois | 179 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Langlois | 51 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Langlois | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 84 | 1 in 40K | 84 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name L'Anglois mean, and where does it come from?
- From French Langlois, from Middle French l'(le)+Anglois (literally “Englishman”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does L'Anglois have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named L'Anglois in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled langlois.
- How common is the name L'Anglois?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,513 people named L'Anglois in 2010, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is L'Anglois compared with other names?
- In France, L'Anglois is the 160th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l'angloisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “L'Anglois” — the 160th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.