Ligier
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ligier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 617K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 646K
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 617K (inferred from the name graph)
62 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
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)
Ligier 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 62 | 1 in 617K | 31 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 26 | 1 in 8.1M | 26 | Ligier | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
| PY Paraguay | — | — | — | Ligier | 4 |
62 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Pierre Mathieu Ligierb. 1796FRFrench actor
- Jules Ligierb. 1849FRFrench official (1849–1904)
- Guy Ligierb. 1930FRFrench rugby union footballer, and racecar driver
- Jean-François Ligierb. 1951FRFrench politician
- Jean-Pierre Ligierb. 1960FRFrench politician
- Régis Ligierb. 1973FRFrench politician
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 31 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 31 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 31 | #68,757 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 31 | #68,356 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 26 | #164,002 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #125,953 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Ligier have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 62 people named Ligier, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ligier most common?
- Ligier is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 617 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ligier?
- In Poland, the national register counted 62 people named Ligier in 2026, about 1 in 617 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ligierThe 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, “Ligier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.