Lejeune
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: variant of Jeune (‘young’), with the definite article le. This name was also taken to Germany by Huguenot refugees. It is often translated as Young
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ləʒœn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lejeune is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Belgium it is the 18th most common surname.
- BEBelgium1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 4.4K
- USUnited States1 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The young; originally used to distinguish the younger of two people with the same name.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Lejeune is read(measured from records)
Lejeune is one spelling over 2 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.
- French62%
variant of Jeune (‘young’), with the definite article le. This name was also taken to Germany by Huguenot refugees. It is often translated as Young.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
de le jeune, surnom pour distinguer le fils du père ou le plus jeune des frères
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English31%
The young; originally used to distinguish the younger of two people with the same name.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Lejeune 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Lejeune | 5 |
| FR France | #191 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 2K | Lejeune | 285 |
| GN Guinea | #91 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Lejeune | 1 |
| BE Belgium | #18 | 6,564 | 1 in 1.8K | 6.6K | Lejeune | 117 |
| US United States | — | 5,544 | 1 in 60K | 5.5K | Lejeune | 207 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 315 | 1 in 55K | 315 | Lejeune | 27 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Louis-François, Baron Lejeuneb. 1775FRFrench general, painter, and lithographer (1775-1848)
- Paul Lejeune-Jungb. 1882DEGerman politician (1882-1944)
- Colette Vivierb. 1898FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer
- Rita Lejeuneb. 1906BEBelgian philologist (1906–2009)
- Jérôme Lejeuneb. 1926FRFrench pediatrician and geneticist (1926–1994)
- André Lejeuneb. 1935FRFrench politician (1935–2009)
- Philippe Lejeuneb. 1938FRFrench professor of French literature
- Olivier Lejeuneb. 1951FRFrench actor
- Clara Gaymardb. 1960FRnot in their usual nameFrench businessperson
- Florian Lejeuneb. 1991FRFrench footballer (born 1991)
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 28 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6.6K | #54 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 6.1K | #59 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.5K | #6,172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.4K | #6,082 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.4K | #5,846 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 2.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 2.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.8K | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- 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 Lejeune come from?
- The young; originally used to distinguish the younger of two people with the same name. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Lejeune?
- A machine transcription gives /ləʒœn/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Lejeune mean?
- In French, variant of Jeune (‘young’), with the definite article le. This name was also taken to Germany by Huguenot refugees. It is often translated as Young.
- In which country does Lejeune have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Lejeune in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lejeune.
- How common is the name Lejeune?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 6,564 people named Lejeune in 2008, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Lejeune compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Lejeune is the 18th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lejeuneThe 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, “Lejeune” — the 18th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.