Legel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Probably an Americanized form of French Legault
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɫɛɡəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Legel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 298K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
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)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 298K (inferred from the name graph)
254 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Probably an Americanized form of French Legault.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Legel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 254 | 1 in 1.3M | 313 | Legel | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | 58 | 1 in 298K | 58 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 36 | 1 in 5.9M | 36 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | 2 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Legel | 24 |
254 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
Legel 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 Slovenian, masculine singular l-participle of lẹ́či
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, to graze, to browse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Karl Legelb. 1907DEGerman badminton player
- Walter Legelb. 1940ATAustrian weightlifter
- Jessica LegelDEGerman 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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 313 | #67,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 313 | #60,230 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 254 | #75,799 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 58 | #28,241 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 36 | #131,575 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #123,391 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Legel?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫɛɡəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Legel mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably an Americanized form of French Legault. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Legel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 254 people named Legel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled legel.
- Where is Legel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Legel is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 298 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Legel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 254 people named Legel in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/legelThe 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, “Legel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.