Leggè
surname · Latin script
Leggè is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Spelling variant of Legg.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 28K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 30K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 292 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, 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 Legge in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 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)Spelling variant of Legg
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The African book of names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Leggè is found
(measured from records)Leggè 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Legge | 170 |
| US United States | 2,088 | 1 in 159K | 2.2K | Legge | 292 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Legge | 147 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Legge | 120 |
| IT Italy | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 67K | listed | Legge | 28 |
| IE Ireland | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Legge | 24 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Legge | 32 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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 Leggè mean, and where does it come from?
- Spelling variant of Legg Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The African book of names and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Leggè?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Leggè in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled legge. After it come United States, Canada, Australia and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Leggè?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,088 people named Leggè in 2010, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/legg%C3%A8The 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, “Leggè”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.