Legendre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: status name from Old French gendre ‘son-in-law’, with the definite article le
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ləʒɑ̃dʀ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Legendre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 179K
- CACanada≈1 in 60K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 283 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
status name from Old French gendre ‘son-in-law’, with the definite article le. See also Gendron. This is a Huguenot name.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Legendre 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #312 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 1.6K | Legendre | 283 |
| CN China | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Legendre | 3 |
| US United States | — | 1,860 | 1 in 179K | 1.9K | Legendre | 190 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Legendre | 99 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 255K | — | Legendre | 35 |
| BE Belgium | — | 147 | 1 in 80K | 147 | Legendre | 27 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 58 | 1 in 145K | 58 | Legendre | 15 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Legendre 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 French, a technical play where a tile with a value higher than 1 is placed on a square multiplying its value while the value of the word is simultaneous multiplied by another square
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, de le gendre, probablement surnom d’un individu ayant hérité de la maison de son beau-père.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Adrien-Marie Legendreb. 1752FRFrench mathematician (1752–1833)
- Louis Legendreb. 1752FRFrench politician (1752-1797)
- Jean-François Legendre-Héralb. 1796FRFrench sculptor (1796–1851)
- Jean Legendreb. 1906FRFrench politician (1906–1994)
- Pierre Legendreb. 1930FRFrench legal historian and psychoanalyst (1930–2023)
- Jacques Legendreb. 1941FRFrench politician
- Louis Legendreb. 1945CACanadian oceanographer and biologist
- Pierre Legendreb. 1946CACanadian ecologist
- Anne-Claire Legendreb. 1979FRFrench diplomat
- Loïc Legendreb. 1985FRactor
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 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,687 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,485 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,413 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1.2K | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Legendre come from?
- status name from Old French gendre ‘son-in-law’, with the definite article le. See also Gendron. This is a Huguenot name. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Legendre?
- A machine transcription gives /ləʒɑ̃dʀ/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Legendre mean?
- Recorded meaning: status name from Old French gendre ‘son-in-law’, with the definite article le.
- In which country does Legendre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Legendre in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled legendre.
- How common is the name Legendre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,860 people named Legendre in 2010, about 1 in 179 thousand residents.
- How common is Legendre compared with other names?
- In France, Legendre is the 312th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/legendreThe 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, “Legendre” — the 312th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.