Legore
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Possibly Italian, a nickname for a fleet-footed or timid person, from a northern variant of standard Italian lepre ‘hare’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫɛˌɡɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Legore is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 27K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 875K
- BRBrazil1 in 8.8M
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
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
380 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Possibly Italian, a nickname for a fleet-footed or timid person, from a northern variant of standard Italian lepre ‘hare’. However, only the plural form Legori is attested in Italian records.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Legore 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 | 380 | 1 in 875K | 421 | Legore | 17 |
| BR Brazil | 24 | 1 in 8.8M | 24 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 2 | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | 7 | Legore | 40 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Legore | 2 |
380 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 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 421 | #47,389 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 393 | #56,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 380 | #54,296 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24 | #173,031 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #180 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Legore come from?
- Possibly Italian, a nickname for a fleet-footed or timid person, from a northern variant of standard Italian lepre ‘hare’. However, only the plural form Legori is attested in Italian records. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Legore?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɛˌɡɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Legore mean?
- Recorded meaning: Possibly Italian, a nickname for a fleet-footed or timid person, from a northern variant of standard Italian lepre ‘hare’.
- In which country does Legore have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 380 people named Legore, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled legore.
- Where is Legore most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Legore is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Legore?
- In the United States, the national register counted 380 people named Legore in 2010, about 1 in 875 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/legoreThe 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, “Legore”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.