Given name & surname
Lemoine
Lemoine is a surname from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-, built from French le + moine (“monk”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lemoine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 109
- 109 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 10 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 1956. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 137 as a first name in 2020; 6,241 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.
Lemoine’s family of names
In French usage, Lemoine as a surname has a related form in Lemoigne.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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