Leque
surname · Latin script
Meaning: range, scope, hand-fan
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/əɫk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leque is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chad than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- TDChad≈1 in 11K
- IEIreland≈1 in 461K
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.
- Chad (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chad, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
range, scope, hand-fan
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leque 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TD Chad | #314 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Leque | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 310 | 1 in 683K | 310 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 180 | 1 in 1.8M | 180 | Leque | 72 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Leque | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 45 | 1 in 1M | 45 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Leque | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Leque | 1 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Leque 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 Portuguese, fan (hand-held device)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Vitor Lequeb. 2001BRBrazilian footballer
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 310 | #25,676 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 180 | #100,302 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 166 | #100,663 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 165 | #113,026 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 45 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Leque mean, and where does it come from?
- range, scope, hand-fan Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- How do you pronounce Leque?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Leque have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Leque in Chad, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leque.
- How common is the name Leque?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 310 people named Leque, about 1 in 683 thousand residents.
- How common is Leque compared with other names?
- In Chad, Leque is the 314th most common surname of 674 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lequeThe 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, “Leque” — the 314th most common surname in Chad. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.