Is There a Lemire Coat of Arms?

Begin with the numbers and the Lemire surname comes into focus. The meaning of Lemire is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records. Spelling in old records was loose, so search for Lemire under several forms.

The 2010 US Census counted 3,507 people named Lemire, ranking it number 9,281 among American surnames. French birth records list 3,281 children named Lemire between 1891 and 2000. Births ran at 183 in 1891–1900 and 266 in 1991–2000.

Sharing the Lemire name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families. Want more than a summary? See the Lemire family name pack.