Saint-Leger
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saint-Leger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 103K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
- CACanada≈1 in 3.8M
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
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)
≈660 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Saintleger in US United States.
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.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saint-Leger 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 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 103K | 153 | Saint-Leger | 119 |
| US United States | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 25M | listed | Saintleger | 10 |
| CA Canada | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Saint-Leger | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 257 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 228 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 195 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 169 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 156 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 153 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 139 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 133 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 130 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 106 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 64 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Saint-Leger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 657 people named Saint-Leger in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Saint-Leger.
- How common is the name Saint-Leger?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 5 people named Saint-Leger in 2024, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Saint-Leger?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saint-legerThe 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, “Saint-Leger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.