Lecerf
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From French for ‘deer’; by extension, a cuckold, from the antlers motif
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ləsɛʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lecerf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 60K
- ATAustria≈1 in 259K
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
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From French for ‘deer’; by extension, a cuckold, from the antlers motif.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lecerf 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 | #910 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 729 | Lecerf | 246 |
| CN China | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Lecerf | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 195 | 1 in 60K | 196 | Lecerf | 35 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 462K | — | Lecerf | 43 |
| US United States | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 5M | listed | Lecerf | 50 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 259K | — | Lecerf | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 18 | 1 in 467K | 18 | Lecerf | 15 |
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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- François Lecerfb. 1753FRFrench politician
- Auguste Lecerfb. 1872FRFrench theologian (1872-1943)
- Olivier Lecerfb. 1929FRFrench businessman
- Alfred Lecerfb. 1948BEBelgian politician
- Jean-René Lecerfb. 1951FRFrench politician
- Martine Lecerfb. 1952FRFrench politician
- Jean-Marie Lecerfb. 1958FRFrench politician
- Patrick Lecerfb. 1959BEBelgian politician
- Marc Lecerfb. 1966FRFrench politician
- Antoine Lecerfb. 1978FRresearcher
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 888 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 877 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 825 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 783 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 744 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 729 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 606 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 602 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 493 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 413 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 308 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 196 | #9,217 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Lecerf mean, and where does it come from?
- From French for ‘deer’; by extension, a cuckold, from the antlers motif. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How do you pronounce Lecerf?
- A machine transcription gives /ləsɛʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Lecerf have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Lecerf in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lecerf.
- How common is the name Lecerf?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 195 people named Lecerf in 2008, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Lecerf compared with other names?
- In France, Lecerf is the 910th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lecerf?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lecerfThe 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, “Lecerf” — the 910th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.