Lebon
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Variant from bon, “good”; here said to imply a good-natured person
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ləbɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lebon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mauritius it is the 52nd most common surname.
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- MUMauritius≈1 in 1.9K
- RERéunion≈1 in 6K
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)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mauritius, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From a medieval French nickname for a good person or, ironically, a bad person (Old French le bon ‘the good’).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Lebon is read(measured from records)
Lebon is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French84%
Variant from bon, “good”; here said to imply a good-natured person.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
variant of Bon (‘good’), with the definite article le.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
de le bon; surnom d’un individu bienveillant
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English10%
From a medieval French nickname for a good person or, ironically, a bad person (Old French le bon ‘the good’).
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lebon 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 | #255 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 2.1K | Lebon | 278 |
| BE Belgium | #815 | 1,202 | 1 in 9.8K | 1.2K | Lebon | 69 |
| MU Mauritius | #52 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Lebon | 14 |
| US United States | — | 649 | 1 in 513K | 686 | Lebon | 101 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Lebon | 6 |
| RE Réunion | #61 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Lebon | 24 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Philippe LeBonb. 1767FRFrench Engineer (1767–1804)
- André Lebonb. 1859FRFrench historian and politician (1859–1938)
- Joseph Lebonb. 1879BEBelgian theologian
- Yvette Lebonb. 1910FRFrench actress (1910-2014)
- André Lebonb. 1910FRFrench politician (1910-1994)
- Lisette Lebonb. 1927FRFrench actress
- Patrick Lebonb. 1940BEBelgian film director and screenwriter
- David Lebónb. 1952ARArgentine musician
- Guillaume Lebonb. 1965FRFrench actor
- Keelan Lebonb. 1997FRSaint Martin association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 2.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.5K | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.2K | #1,057 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.1K | #1,145 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1.1K | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Lebon come from?
- From a medieval French nickname for a good person or, ironically, a bad person (Old French le bon ‘the good’). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Lebon?
- A machine transcription gives /ləbɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Lebon mean?
- In French, Variant from bon, “good”; here said to imply a good-natured person.
- In which country does Lebon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Lebon in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lebon.
- How common is the name Lebon?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,202 people named Lebon in 2008, about 1 in 9.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Lebon compared with other names?
- In France, Lebon is the 255th 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/lebonThe 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, “Lebon” — the 255th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.