Lefèbre

surname · Latin script

Lefèbre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Lefevre.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 25K(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 35K
  • BEBelgium1 in 69K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

713 people, 2010

Sources
131 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lefebre in US United States, BE Belgium.

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)

variant of Lefevre.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lefèbre 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.

Where Lefèbre is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7131 in 467K713Lefebre93
BE Belgium1691 in 69K169Lefebre30
CR Costa Rica1441 in 35K144——
UY Uruguay1361 in 25K136——
ES Spain121 in 4.2M12—2
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7—4

713 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lefèbre is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Mexico

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Lefebre, Lefébre

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Lefebre

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Lefèbre mean, and where does it come from?
variant of Lefevre. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Lefèbre have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 713 people named Lefèbre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lefebre.
Where is Lefèbre most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lefèbre is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lefèbre?
In the United States, the national register counted 713 people named Lefèbre in 2010, about 1 in 467 thousand residents.

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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, “Lefèbre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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