Lemaire
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lemaire is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Belgium it is the 38th most common surname. Recorded meaning: status name for a local magistrate or official (see Maire), with the definite article le.
- BEBelgium1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 2K
- USUnited States1 in 113K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 341 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈63,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
status name for a local magistrate or official (see Maire), with the definite article le.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lemaire 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 | — | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Lemaire | 5 |
| FR France | #64 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 4.6K | Lemaire | 341 |
| BE Belgium | #38 | 6,105 | 1 in 1.9K | 6.1K | Lemaire | 125 |
| US United States | — | 2,931 | 1 in 113K | 2.9K | Lemaire | 227 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Lemaire | 2 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Lemaire | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 188 | 1 in 18K | 188 | — | — |
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; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Lemaire is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, de le maire, même origine que Maire
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)
- Alfred Jean Baptiste Lemaireb. 1842FRFrench musician (1842-1907)
- Madeleine Lemaireb. 1845FRFrench painter (1845–1928)
- Renee Lemaireb. 1914BEBelgian nurse (1914-1944)
- Pierre Courb. 1916FRnot in their usual nameFrench songwriter, lyricist (1916-1995)
- Philippe Lemaireb. 1927FRactor (1927-2004)
- Jacques Lemaireb. 1945CACanadian ice hockey player and coach
- Francis Lemaireb. 1953BEBelgian actor
- Axelle Lemaireb. 1974CAFrench socialist politician
- Christophe Lemaireb. 1979FRFrench jockey
- Alexis Lemaireb. 1980FRmental calculator
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6.1K | #67 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 5.8K | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 5.7K | #70 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 5.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 4.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 4.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 4.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 3.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 3.1K | — |
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
- What does the name Lemaire mean, and where does it come from?
- status name for a local magistrate or official (see Maire), with the definite article le. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lemaire have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 63 thousand people named Lemaire in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lemaire.
- Where is Lemaire most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lemaire is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lemaire?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 6,105 people named Lemaire in 2008, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Lemaire compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Lemaire is the 38th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lemaireThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lemaire” — the 38th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.