Legen

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Legen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country. In Hungarian, recorded as superessive singular of leg.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 21K(measured from records)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 193K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 270K

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.

Slovenia (measured from records)

98 people

Sources
42 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

to lay, put

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of German

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

How Legen is read(measured from records)

Legen is one spelling over 5 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.

  • English41%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Legen in English.

  • Croatian17%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Legen in Croatian.

  • Hungarian10%

    superessive singular of leg

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German9.4%

    to lay, put

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German

    causative of liegen: to lay; to put, place, position (someone or something) such that it afterwards lies

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French5.2%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Legen in French.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Legen 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 Legen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia981 in 21K98—3
NL Netherlands641 in 270K64Legen9
DZ Algeria≈60 est.≈1 in 722K—Legen1
US United States≈50 est.≈1 in 6.6M6Legen42
AT Austria≈46 est.≈1 in 193K—Legen10
HR Croatia121 in 352K12——

98 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

Legen is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Legën

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Legén

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Légen, Leğen

  • Slovak surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Legéň, Legeň, Legén

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Legeń

26 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Legen is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, Ivanko Legen, Novgorodite. 1193.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In gmh, to lay, to put into a horizontal position

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Albanian, basin, washbasin, bowl, bucket

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Legen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—98#4,493
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200764#26,343
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202112#28,943
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202110—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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 Legen come from?
to lay, put Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
What does the name Legen mean?
In Hungarian, superessive singular of leg
What are other forms of the name Legen?
In the etymology graph, Lay is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Legen have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 98 people named Legen, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Legen most common?
Legen is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Legen?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 98 people named Legen, about 1 in 21 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, “Legen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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