Leca
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Acronym of lightweight expanded clay aggregate
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ləka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 13K
- GYGuyana1 in 68K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
money; cash
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Leca is read(measured from records)
Leca is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French57%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Leca in French.
- English13%
Acronym of lightweight expanded clay aggregate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Leca in Spanish.
- Portuguese11%
money; cash
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leca counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 276 | Leca | 223 |
| RO Romania | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Leca | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 645 | 1 in 328K | 645 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Leca | 5 |
| US United States | 201 | 1 in 1.7M | 206 | Leca | 49 |
| PT Portugal | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Leca | 1 |
| FI Finland | 45 | 1 in 124K | 45 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 11 | 1 in 68K | 11 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dominique Lecab. 1906FRFrench official and politician
- Barthélémy Lecab. 1953FRFrench politician
- Thierry Lecab. 1959FRFrench politician
- Stéphane Lecab. 1976FRFrench politician
- Grégory Lecab. 1980FRFrench footballer
- Jean-Louis Lecab. 1985FRFrench footballer
- Daniel Lecab. 1985FRFrench politician (born 1985)
- Mihai Daniel Lecab. 1992RORomanian footballer
- Mickael Lecab. 1994FRfootballer
- Marius Lecab. 2000RORomanian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 645 | #13,531 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 379 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 352 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 334 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 331 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 303 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 294 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 291 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 286 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 276 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 274 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 263 | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Leca come from?
- money; cash Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Leca?
- A machine transcription gives /ləka/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Leca mean?
- In English, Acronym of lightweight expanded clay aggregate
- In which country does Leca have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Leca in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leca.
- How common is the name Leca?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 645 people named Leca, about 1 in 328 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Leca?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lecaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Leca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.