Lemire Surname
Approximately 15,914 people bear this surname
Lemire Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 8,651 | 1:4,259 | 574 |
| United States | 4,522 | 1:80,155 | 9,127 |
| France | 2,488 | 1:26,697 | 3,204 |
| Belgium | 74 | 1:155,360 | 21,583 |
| Australia | 54 | 1:499,920 | 37,885 |
| New Caledonia | 16 | 1:17,264 | 4,719 |
| Chile | 14 | 1:1,258,320 | 22,898 |
| Thailand | 10 | 1:7,063,834 | 426,148 |
| Netherlands | 9 | 1:1,876,353 | 85,467 |
| Germany | 7 | 1:11,500,780 | 305,602 |
| Brazil | 6 | 1:35,679,055 | 486,536 |
| New Zealand | 6 | 1:754,720 | 41,661 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Argentina | 5 | 1:8,548,683 | 204,003 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 4 | 1:27,594 | 3,273 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Puerto Rico | 4 | 1:887,535 | 4,548 |
| Denmark | 4 | 1:1,411,179 | 60,800 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 1 | 1:34,329 | 862 |
| British Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:31,594 | 1,029 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| French Polynesia | 1 | 1:280,805 | 7,211 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 86 | 1:583,938 | 39,464 |
Lemire (45) may also be a first name.
Lemire Demographics
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Lemire Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lemire Come From? nationality or country of origin
Lemire (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻟﻤﻴﺮ) occurs more in Canada more than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. Click here for other possible spellings of Lemire.
How Common Is The Last Name Lemire? popularity and diffusion
It is the 33,377th most prevalent surname on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 457,933 people. This surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 83 percent of Lemire reside; 82 percent reside in North America and 43 percent reside in Gallo-North America. Lemire is also the 1,504,468th most frequent first name in the world, borne by 45 people.
This last name is most widely held in Canada, where it is borne by 8,651 people, or 1 in 4,259. In Canada it is mostly concentrated in: Quebec, where 79 percent live, Ontario, where 11 percent live and Alberta, where 4 percent live. Besides Canada this surname is found in 40 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 28 percent live and France, where 16 percent live.
Lemire Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Lemire has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Lemire surname rose 5,258 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Lemire Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Lemire surname are 5.83% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 59.06% registered with the political party.
The amount Lemire earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 3.99% more than the national average, earning $44,869 USD per year and in Canada they earn 12.29% less than the national average, earning $43,576 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Lemire Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lemire in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻟﻤﻴﺮ | lmyr | 66.67 |
| ﻟﻤﻴﺮﻩ | lmyrh | 33.33 |
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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 Lemire
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