Lemercier
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ləmɛʁsje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lemercier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 98K
- ARArgentina1 in 446K
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
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lemercier 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 | #978 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 611 | Lemercier | 232 |
| BE Belgium | — | 120 | 1 in 98K | 120 | Lemercier | 21 |
| AR Argentina | — | 102 | 1 in 446K | 102 | — | — |
| US United States | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | listed | Lemercier | 49 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Lemercier | 16 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Lemercier | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | Lemercier | 8 |
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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jacques Lemercierb. 1585FRFrench architect (1585–1654)
- Pierre-Paul Lemercier de La Rivière de Saint-Médardb. 1719FRFrench economist
- Louis-Nicolas Lemercierb. 1755FRFrench politician
- Népomucène Lemercierb. 1771FRFrench poet (1771-1840)
- Joseph Lemercierb. 1803FRFrench printer, editor and lithograph (1803–1887)
- Linette Lemercierb. 1930FRFrench actress
- Cristina Lemercierb. 1951ARArgentine actress (1951-1996)
- Alain Lemercierb. 1957FRFrench athlete
- Valérie Lemercierb. 1964FRFrench actress, comedian, singer, film director and screenwriter
- Sebastien LemercierFRfilm producer
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 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 861 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 818 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 813 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 790 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 670 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 669 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 639 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 611 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 518 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 471 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 333 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 120 | #13,409 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Lemercier?
- A machine transcription gives /ləmɛʁsje/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Lemercier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Lemercier in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lemercier.
- How common is the name Lemercier?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 120 people named Lemercier in 2008, about 1 in 98 thousand residents.
- How common is Lemercier compared with other names?
- In France, Lemercier is the 978th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lemercier?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lemercierThe 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, “Lemercier” — the 978th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.