Lecue
surname · Latin script
Meaning: for someone who lived at a particular spot outside the main village, from Basque lek(h)u place, spot + the local suffix -ue (from (g)une space, distance)
/əɫkjuː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lecue is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 141K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 498K
- CLChile≈1 in 585K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 141K (inferred from the name graph)
355 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
for someone who lived at a particular spot outside the main village, from Basque lek(h)u place, spot + the local suffix -ue (from (g)une space, distance). Alternatively it may be a topographic name for someone who lived at a lower spot, in which case it is a var. of Lekube, containing the suffix -be lower down. Lecornu see Corne Lebbel see Beau
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lecue 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 355 | 1 in 141K | 355 | Lecue | 46 |
| FR France | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 498K | 24 | Lecue | 77 |
| US United States | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 9.7M | listed | Lecue | 19 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 898K | — | Lecue | 7 |
| CL Chile | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 585K | — | Lecue | 3 |
355 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 355 | #10,525 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 355 | #10,521 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 11 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lecue mean, and where does it come from?
- for someone who lived at a particular spot outside the main village, from Basque lek(h)u place, spot + the local suffix -ue (from (g)une space, distance). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Lecue?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫkjuː/ (IPA) for Lao.
- In which country does Lecue have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 355 people named Lecue, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lecue.
- Where is Lecue most common?
- Lecue is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 141 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lecue?
- In Spain, the national register counted 355 people named Lecue, about 1 in 141 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lecueThe 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, “Lecue”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.