Lepage

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Lepage 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.

• English47%

  ‘the young male servant’ (Old French le page).

  as a name·Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  A surname from French, equivalent to English Page.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• French43%

  occupational name for a young servant. Old French page, with the definite article le. The word came from Italian paggio, apparently ultimately from Greek paidion, diminutive of pais ‘boy’, ‘child’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

  a surname, Lepage, originating as an occupation, equivalent to English Page

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  de l’ancien français le page « le jeune garçon, valet ».

  as a name·Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  altération de Pagési, de Pagézy, La Pagésie ou La Pagézie, noms de plusieurs localités du sud-ouest de la France.

  as a name·Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Lepage is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Le-Page, Leṗage, Le Page

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

• Paul LePageb. 1948US74th Governor of Maine
• Corinne Lepageb. 1951FRFrench politician
• James LePageUSAmerican technology executive

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).

24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Lepage mean, and where does it come from?

‘the young male servant’ (Old French le page). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

Which countries have the most people with the surname Lepage?

Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Lepage in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lepage. After it come Canada, United States, United Kingdom and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Lepage?

In the United States, the national register counted 3,865 people named Lepage in 2010, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.

How common is Lepage compared with other names?

In France, Lepage is the 530th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.