Lecuyer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ecuyer, originally meaning ‘shield-bearer’ (Latin scutarius, a derivative of scutum ‘shield’)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lkyje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lecuyer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 42K
- USUnited States1 in 241K
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
- 256 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,400 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)
from ecuyer, originally meaning ‘shield-bearer’ (Latin scutarius, a derivative of scutum ‘shield’). This became a status name for a man belonging to the social rank immediately below that of knight. The surname came to America with the Huguenots. It is sometimes translated as Cook; the original term having lost transparency of meaning, it was taken as a derivative of cuire ‘to cook’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lecuyer 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 | #625 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 896 | Lecuyer | 256 |
| US United States | — | 1,378 | 1 in 241K | 1.4K | Lecuyer | 180 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Lecuyer | 93 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Lecuyer | 33 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 443K | — | Lecuyer | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | 87 | 1 in 135K | 87 | Lecuyer | 20 |
| FI Finland | — | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
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 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Jean Lecuyerb. 1500FRFrench painter (1500–1556)
- Germaine Lecuyerb. 1886FRFrench actress
- Gerard Lecuyerb. 1936CACanadian politician (1936–2025)
- Tanagoreb. 1946FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer-songwriter
- Jean Lecuyerb. 1946FRFrench politician
- Christian Lecuyerb. 1949FRFrench politician
- Doug Lecuyerb. 1958CACanadian ice hockey player
- Anne-Sophie Boisseauxb. 1973FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician
- Vincent Lecuyerb. 1976FRFrench actor
- Matthieu Lecuyerb. 1980FRFrench racing driver
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,165 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,223 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,581 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 999 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 936 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 896 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 795 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 654 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Lecuyer come from?
- from ecuyer, originally meaning ‘shield-bearer’ (Latin scutarius, a derivative of scutum ‘shield’). This became a status name for a man belonging to the social rank immediately below that of knight. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lecuyer?
- A machine transcription gives /lkyje/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Lecuyer mean?
- Recorded meaning: from ecuyer, originally meaning ‘shield-bearer’ (Latin scutarius, a derivative of scutum ‘shield’).
- In which country does Lecuyer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Lecuyer in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lecuyer.
- How common is the name Lecuyer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,378 people named Lecuyer in 2010, about 1 in 241 thousand residents.
- How common is Lecuyer compared with other names?
- In France, Lecuyer is the 625th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lecuyerThe 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, “Lecuyer” — the 625th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.