Leger

At the 2020 census, 9,793 Americans bore the surname Leger — 3,554th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 30,500.

By the numbers

People: 9,793
Rank: 3,554th
How common: 1 in 30,500
Per 100,000: 3.3

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Leger described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 74.4%
Black, not Hispanic 13.9%
Hispanic or Latino 7.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Leger

Fernand Léger (1881–1955)French painter
Paul-Émile Léger (1904–1991)Canadian Catholic cardinal
Louis Léger (1843–1923)French writer and academic
Jules Léger (1913–1980)Canadian diplomat and governor general

People named Leger with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Leger

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.