The Lebas surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 181 people carried this name — #99,845 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,666,700 people counted. That is up 2% from 177 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 3,488 people named Lebas.
23 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 77 départements, most often Seine-Maritime.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 26 people named Lebas live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
25 people named Lebas live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Lebas,
with a public archive behind them.
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Jean-Baptiste Lebas 1878–1944 · politician -
Jean Lebas 1700–1800 · poet
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Jacques-Philippe Lebas 1781–1839 · Pharmazeut
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Apollinaire Lebas 1797–1873 · engineer
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E. Lebas 1800– · botanist
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Gabriel Hippolyte Lebas 1812–1880 · painter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lebas.
- Leandro 1,306 · U.S. census
- Leard 1,170 · U.S. census
- Leban 268 · U.S. census
- Lebar 506 · U.S. census
- Lebard 102 · U.S. census
- Lebaron 2,641 · U.S. census
- Lebeau 4,958 · U.S. census
- Lebeaux 230 · U.S. census
- Lebegue 106 · U.S. census
- Lebel 2,516 · U.S. census
- Leber 2,865 · U.S. census
- Lebert 725 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Lebas is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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