Negre

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Negre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: gender-neutral singular of negro.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 64K
  • ESSpain1 in 38K

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)

≈3,500 people, est.

Sources
245 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

gender-neutral singular of negro

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Negre 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.

Where Negre is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈3,500 est.≈1 in 19K422Negre245
PH Philippines≈1,700 est.≈1 in 64K—Negre26
BR Brazil1,4651 in 145K1.5K—1
ES Spain1,3151 in 38K1.3KNegre32
AR Argentina1661 in 274K166——

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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Negre is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, Philippines, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Negré, Négre, Nègre

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Spain, Philippines, United States

    Also written Nègre

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Négre, Negré, Nègre

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Spain, Italy

    Also written Nègre, Negrè

38 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Negre is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, "black."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Catalan, black (absorbing all light and reflecting none)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Interlingua, black (completely dark, absorbing all light)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, indefinite plural of neger

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In frm, person of African descent

    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)

18001850190019502000Josep Molins i Negre, b. 1801Josep Negre, b. 1875Pelagi Negre i Pastell, b. 1895Andreu Rabasa i Negre, b. 1931Antoni Negre i Villavecchia, b. 1931Leandre Negre Carrió, b. 1946Jean-Marc Negre, b. 1947Jordi Turull i Negre, b. 1966

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 17 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Negre
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.5K#6,491
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.3K#3,482
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.3K#3,480
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961658—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951658—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941620—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921590—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981524—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971521—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931509—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901495—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911430—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

What does the name Negre mean, and where does it come from?
gender-neutral singular of negro Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Negre have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Negre in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled negre.
How common is the name Negre?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,465 people named Negre, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.

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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, “Negre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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