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    The surname Legere

    A surname, carried by 2,270 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L260

    Legere: #13,427 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Legere #13,427, 2,270 people Legere: #13,427 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Legere #13,427, 2,270 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Legere is more common than 91.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,270 people named Legere in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 136,011 Americans. That is up 5.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,148.

    #13,427
    rank among US surnames
    2,270
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.7%
    change since 2000 (was #13,071)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,418Presson2,271135,951
    #13,427Legere2,270136,011
    #13,431Renard2,269136,071
    #13,435Forshee2,268136,131

    Who is named Legere

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    92% of people named Legere identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Legere

    Legere has the Soundex code L260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L260.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Legere?
    2,270 people in the United States had the surname Legere in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 136,011 Americans. It ranked 13,427th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Legere?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Legere identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Legere getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,148 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,270 in 2010, up 5.7%.