Tracing the Leboeuf Family Name

Leboeuf is a surname that official counts pick up clearly. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Leboeuf with 3,504 bearers, at rank 9,289. That puts it among the top 10,000 US surnames. 4,886 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Leboeuf name at birth. There were 257 such births in the 1890s and 392 in the 1990s. Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Leboeuf, so we research it family by family rather than guess. Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes.

Heraldry follows families, not surnames. A Leboeuf coat of arms, where one exists, belonged to a specific line. For the full story, order the Leboeuf surname pack.