Legér
surname · Latin script
Legér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French léger, assumed to be from Latin leviarius, from levis (“light in weight”). See levity.
- DMDominica1 in 25K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 33K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 35K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
10,221 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leger in US United States, DZ Algeria and Léger in CH Switzerland, ES Spain.
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)- Frenchléger(measured from records)
- Latinleviarius(measured from records)
- Latin rootlevis“light in weight”(measured from records)
Borrowed from French léger, assumed to be from Latin leviarius, from levis (“light in weight”). See levity.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Legér 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 10,221 | 1 in 33K | 10K | Leger | 360 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 241 | 1 in 35K | 241 | Léger | 13 |
| BE Belgium | — | 154 | 1 in 76K | 154 | — | 19 |
| BR Brazil | — | 93 | 1 in 2.3M | 93 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 78 | 1 in 641K | 78 | Léger | 11 |
| NO Norway | — | 20 | 1 in 273K | 20 | — | 3 |
| DM Dominica | — | 3 | 1 in 25K | 3 | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | #142 | — | — | — | Leger | 1 |
10,221 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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 Legér mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French léger, assumed to be from Latin leviarius, from levis (“light in weight”). See levity. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Legér have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Legér, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leger.
- Where is Legér most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Legér is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Legér?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,221 people named Legér in 2010, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Legér compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Legér is the 142nd most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leg%C3%A9rThe 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, “Legér” — the 142nd most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.