Lege

• English:/ˈlɛd͡ʒ/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Lege is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English49%

  Clipping of legislature.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• French25%

  of uncertain origin. With two syllables (Lege), it may be a variant of French Le Gal, a nickname for a cheerful person (see Gay, Dugay).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• German8.8%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Lege in German.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Lege is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French surname8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Netherlands, Burkina Faso

  Also written Legé, Légé, Lège, Lége, Lëgë

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Legé, Légé

• Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States

  Also written Legè, Legé, Lëgë

35 further groups 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.

Lege is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, synonym of lækjar (“doctor, physician”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of legō

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Dutch, singular present subjunctive of legen

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In yka, dirty (with anything); greasy

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

• Wilhelm Legeb. 1841DEGerman composer
• Sebastian Legeb. 1978DEGerman chef and TV personality

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).

17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Lege come from?

of uncertain origin. With two syllables (Lege), it may be a variant of French Le Gal, a nickname for a cheerful person (see Gay, Dugay). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.

How do you pronounce Lege?

In English /ˈlɛd͡ʒ/ (Wiktionary).

What does the name Lege mean?

In English, Clipping of legislature.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Lege?

In the United States, the national register counted about 804 people named Lege, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lege. After it come France, Germany, Mauritius and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Lege?

In the United States, the national register counted 804 people named Lege in 2010, about 1 in 414 thousand residents.

How common is Lege compared with other names?

In Mauritius, Lege is the 163rd most common surname of 1,496 surnames recorded there.