Given name & surname
Legrand
“Great, Grand”
Legrand is a surname from French. It is used in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
Original FrenchGrand
Meaning & origin
What it means
Legrand goes back to French Legrand, meaning “Great, Grand.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1897. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Legrand through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 512
- 512 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 302 as a first name in 2020; 5,094 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Legrand’s family of names
In French usage, Legrand as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form Grant. In French usage, Legrand as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form Grand. In French usage, Legrand as a surname has a related form in Grand.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Legrand has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its French roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 7
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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