Lemaître Surname
Approximately 535 people bear this surname
Lemaître Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 295 | 1:38,972 | 6,382 |
| France | 192 | 1:345,952 | 52,007 |
| Switzerland | 28 | 1:293,318 | 23,433 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Chile | 3 | 1:5,872,158 | 52,204 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1:276,223 | 10,363 |
The alternate forms: Lemaitre (24,578) & Lemaïtre (2) are calculated separately.
Lemaître Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lemaître Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Lemaître occurs more in Belgium more than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms: Lemaitre or Lemaïtre. For other potential spellings of Lemaître click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lemaître? popularity and diffusion
It is the 585,091st most frequent last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 13,621,581 people. The surname Lemaître occurs predominantly in Europe, where 99 percent of Lemaître are found; 98 percent are found in Western Europe and 93 percent are found in Gallo-Europe.
This last name is most commonly held in Belgium, where it is held by 295 people, or 1 in 38,972. In Belgium Lemaître is most prevalent in: Walloon Region, where 68 percent are found, Brussels Capital Region, where 28 percent are found and Flemish Region, where 4 percent are found. Other than Belgium Lemaître is found in 13 countries. It is also common in France, where 36 percent are found and Switzerland, where 5 percent are found.
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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
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- 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 Lemaître
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