Given name & surname · also French
Lejeune
Lejeune is a surname from French, ultimately from Vulgar Latin. It is used in English and French.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Lejeune comes from French, and ultimately from Vulgar Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From French Lejeune, from Middle French jeune, from Middle French le, from Old French le, from Latin illum, from Old French juene, from Vulgar Latin *iŏvenem, built from French le + jeune.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1921. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lejeune through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 5 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 1961
- 6 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 girls is 6 in 1961. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,426 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.
Lejeune’s family of names
In French usage, Lejeune as a surname shares a linguistic root with the English form Young. In French usage, Lejeune as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Walloon form L'Djonne.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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