Lejeune

Lejeune is the 6,082nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,426 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 55,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,426
Rank: 6,082nd
How common: 1 in 55,100
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

from inherited from Middle French jeune. From Middle French le, from Old French le, from Latin illum, from ille. From Old French juene, juefne, from Vulgar Latin *iŏvenem, from Latin iuvenem.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Lejeune

Jérôme Lejeune (1926–1994)French pediatrician and geneticist
Florian Lejeune (born 1991)French footballer
Louis-François, Baron Lejeune (1775–1848)French general, painter, and lithographer
Alexandre Louis Simon Lejeune (1779–1858)Belgian botanist
Kévin Lejeune (born 1985)French association football player

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

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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.