Legué Surname

3,485,539th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 32 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

Legué Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Legué Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands201:844,35960,801
France71:9,488,960336,266
Canada31:12,281,864364,614
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776

The alternate forms: Legüe (2) are calculated separately.

Legué Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Legué Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Legué is found most in The Netherlands. It can also appear as a variant: Legüe. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Legué? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 3,485,539th most frequently occurring family name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 227,735,810 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 88 percent of Legué live; 88 percent live in Western Europe and 63 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The surname Legué is most frequently held in The Netherlands, where it is held by 20 people, or 1 in 844,359. In The Netherlands it is most frequent in: South Holland, where 55 percent are found, Utrecht, where 35 percent are found and Gelderland, where 5 percent are found. Other than The Netherlands this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also found in France, where 22 percent are found and Canada, where 9 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Legoué911/
Legüe872/
Ligué8011/
Leguhe7339/
Legaua7339/
Legoua7334/
Legoui7328/
Leguía7314/
Legouy7312/
Ligués733/
Legouhy6714/
Legouis6711/
Legouit678/
Legouhi672/
Leghoui671/
Legouie671/
Legouais6210/
Ligouy5538/
Liguhe551/
Legoei551/
Lekgooe5013/
Ligouis5010/
Ligauha501/
Ligueue501/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Legué
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