Family name origins & meanings
- English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Saint-Léger in La Manche or Saint-Léger-aux-Bois in Seine-Maritime, both so called from the dedication of their churches to St. Leger (see Ledger), the martyred 7th-century bishop of Autun.
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from a Germanized form of the personal name Salomon.