as a Last Name
- 10,556
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Legg
Meaning & Origins
English (chiefly West Country): metonymic nickname for someone with some malformation or peculiarity of the leg, or just with particularly long legs, from Middle English legg (Old Norse leggr).
| 3,416th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,556
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Legg per capita
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