Legarda
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Legarda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Legarda, from Basque Legarda.
- COColombia≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 45K
- USUnited States1 in 484K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- SpanishLegarda(measured from records)
- BasqueLegarda(measured from records)
From Spanish Legarda, from Basque Legarda.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Legarda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 4 | Legarda | 63 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Legarda | 53 |
| US United States | — | 687 | 1 in 484K | 732 | Legarda | 118 |
| ES Spain | — | 490 | 1 in 102K | 490 | Legarda | 55 |
| RE Réunion | #761 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Legarda | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 159 | 1 in 286K | 159 | Legarda | 21 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Legarda is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, a hamlet in Vitoria, Álava, Basque Country, Spain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( Lar → H ). "Antídoto" , "preservación", "preservativo" Lar. . " Egiazko legarda den pozoinik lanyerosenera itzultzea, changer au plus dangereux poison le véritable préservatif (c.-à.-d. la confession)" H . Eritasun guzien legarda poderotsu hura . KadBet 52. Legarda edo puzoi kontrakoagatik . Echve Dev 268 (SP Phil 230 y He Phil 231 kontrapozoin ) .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Benito Legardab. 1853USFilipino politician (1853–1915)
- Saturnino Legardab. 1896ESSpanish organist
- Trinidad Legardab. 1899PHFilipina suffragist, clubwoman, philanthropist, and editor
- Hilario Ziálcitab. 1913PHnot in their usual nameFilipino writer
- Galo Legardab. 1933ECcarom billiards player from Ecuador
- Loren Legardab. 1960PHPresident pro tempore of the Senate of the Philippines since 2022
- Galo LegardaECEcuadorian amateur wrestler
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 732 | #33,503 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 687 | #33,280 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 567 | #37,043 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 490 | #8,125 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 490 | #8,116 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 159 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 4 | #112 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Legarda mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Legarda, from Basque Legarda. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Legarda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Legarda in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled legarda.
- How common is the name Legarda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 687 people named Legarda in 2010, about 1 in 484 thousand residents.
- How common is Legarda compared with other names?
- In Réunion, Legarda is the 761st most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/legardaThe 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, “Legarda” — the 761st most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.