Maigre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: meagre, skinny
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛɡʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maigre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 134K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 100K
- BEBelgium1 in 260K
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
- 139 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)
≈510 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
meagre, skinny
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maigre 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 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 134K | 71 | Maigre | 139 |
| BE Belgium | 45 | 1 in 260K | 45 | Maigre | 17 |
| DE Germany | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Maigre | 27 |
| PL Poland | 26 | 1 in 1.5M | 16 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Maigre | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | Maigre | 4 |
| EE Estonia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 13 | — | 2 |
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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Maigre is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Made without meat (and thus permitted to be eaten on a fast day).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, thin
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)
- Robert Maigreb. 1954FRFrench politician
- Chloé Maigreb. 1974FRFrench gymnast (1974-)
- Merle Maigreb. 1977EEEstonian cybersecurity expert and civil servant (born 1977)
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 83 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 63 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 47 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 45 | #28,177 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 44 | — |
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
- What does the name Maigre mean, and where does it come from?
- meagre, skinny Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Maigre?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛɡʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Maigre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 505 people named Maigre in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maigre.
- How common is the name Maigre?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 45 people named Maigre in 2008, about 1 in 260 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Maigre?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maigreThe 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, “Maigre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.