Legese
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Legese is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common surname.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 1.4Kas Legesse(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 130K
- SESweden1 in 319K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Legese itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)
≈76,000 named Legesse, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Legesse in US United States, SE Sweden, ZA South Africa and 2 more and ለገሰ in ET Ethiopia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Legese 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #63 | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | ለገሰ | 37 |
| US United States | — | 405as Legesse | 1 in 821K | 698 | Legesse | 109 |
| ME Montenegro | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Legesse | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Legesse | 8 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Legesse | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 42 | 1 in 130K | 42 | — | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 32 | 1 in 319K | 32 | Legesse | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | — | 2 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 42 | #28,971 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32 | #18,097 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Legese have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 76 thousand people named Legesse in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Legese most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Legese is densest in Norway — about 1 in 130 thousand people — even though Ethiopia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Legese?
- In Norway, the national register counted 42 people named Legese, about 1 in 130 thousand residents.
- How common is Legese compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Legese is the 63rd most common surname of 22,571 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Legese?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/legeseThe 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, “Legese” — the 63rd most common surname in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.