Seigneur
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: lord (aristocrat, man of high rank)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/se.ɲœʁ/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Seigneur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 234K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 442K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- 1 in 234K (inferred from the name graph)
142 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A feudal lord or noble in French contexts.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Seigneur is read
(measured from records)Seigneur is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French81%
lord (aristocrat, man of high rank)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English12%
A feudal lord or noble in French contexts.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Seigneur 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 142 | 1 in 2.3M | 142 | Seigneur | 66 |
| BE Belgium | 50 | 1 in 234K | 50 | Seigneur | 16 |
| AR Argentina | 27 | 1 in 1.7M | 27 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 21 | 1 in 10M | 21 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | Seigneur | 8 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Seigneur | 3 |
142 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Seigneur is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In fro, alternative form of seignor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frm, lord
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Francijā senāk zemes un lēņa kungs, vēlāk tituls uzrunā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Yannick Seigneurb. 1941FRFrench explorer and mountain guide (1941-2001)
- François Seigneurb. 1942FRFrench architect (1942-2019)
- Pauline Seigneurb. 1943CHSwiss writer
- Alain Seigneurb. 1948FRFrench politician
- Christian Seigneurb. 1952FRscientist
- Daniel Seigneurb. 1952FRFrench politician
- Olivier Seigneurb. 1956FRFrench crime writer
- Eddy Seigneurb. 1969FRroad bicycle racer
- Fabrice Seigneurb. 1990FRFrench bicycle racer
- Louise Seigneurb. 2011FRFrench cyclist
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 142 | #121,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 141 | #127,013 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 130 | #122,534 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 50 | #26,211 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 27 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21 | #188,821 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Seigneur come from?
- A feudal lord or noble in French contexts. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Seigneur?
- In the etymology graph, Seigneurie is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Seigneur?
- In French /se.ɲœʁ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Seigneur mean?
- In French, lord (aristocrat, man of high rank)
- In which country does Seigneur have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 142 people named Seigneur, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seigneur.
- Where is Seigneur most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Seigneur is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 234 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Seigneur?
- In the United States, the national register counted 142 people named Seigneur in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Seigneur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seigneurThe 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, “Seigneur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.