Leclere
surname · Latin script
Meaning: metronymic from a female personal name from the dialect word clere ‘clear’ (modem French clair(e)), with the definite article le, which was feminine in the old Picard dialect
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ləklɛʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leclere is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 20K
- LULuxembourg≈1 in 79K
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
- 237 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
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)
metronymic from a female personal name from the dialect word clere ‘clear’ (modem French clair(e)), with the definite article le, which was feminine in the old Picard dialect. The surname may also be derived from a place in Seine-Maritime called Clere, which comes from the name of a river which rises there. La Cleres ‘clear river’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leclere 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 | #743 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 803 | Leclere | 237 |
| US United States | — | 588 | 1 in 566K | 644 | Leclere | 110 |
| BE Belgium | — | 583 | 1 in 20K | 583 | Leclere | 43 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 631K | — | Leclere | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 887K | — | Leclere | 18 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Leclere | 1 |
| LU Luxembourg | #913 | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Leclere | 4 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Leclere is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
North American spelling variant of Leclair or Leclerc.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hubert Leclereb. 1888BERighteous Among the Nations
- Magalie Leclereb. 1986FRFrench 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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 980 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 890 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 803 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 774 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 760 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 751 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 644 | #37,209 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 633 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 603 | #35,342 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Leclere mean, and where does it come from?
- metronymic from a female personal name from the dialect word clere ‘clear’ (modem French clair(e)), with the definite article le, which was feminine in the old Picard dialect. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Leclere?
- A machine transcription gives /ləklɛʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Leclere have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Leclere in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leclere.
- How common is the name Leclere?
- In the United States, the national register counted 588 people named Leclere in 2010, about 1 in 566 thousand residents.
- How common is Leclere compared with other names?
- In France, Leclere is the 743rd 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/leclereThe 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, “Leclere” — the 743rd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.