Boulé
surname · Latin script
Meaning: past participle of bouler
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Boulé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 690K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 382K
- BEBelgium1 in 837K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 382K (inferred from the name graph)
482 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boule in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)past participle of bouler
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Boulé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 482 | 1 in 690K | 586 | Boule | 170 |
| CH Switzerland | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | 17 | 1 in 2.9M | 17 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 14 | 1 in 837K | 14 | — | 5 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 2 | — | 1 |
482 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Auguste-Louis-Désiré Bouléb. 1799FRFrench playwright (1799-1865)
- Jean-Marc Bouléb. 1939CAheadmaster of Séminaire Saint-François, secondary school in Quebec, Canada
- Marc Bouléb. 1974CAprofessor at ÉTS
- Claire BouléCAQuebec poet, novelist, and short story writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 14 | #60,813 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Boulé mean, and where does it come from?
- past participle of bouler Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Boulé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 482 people named Boulé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boule.
- Where is Boulé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Boulé is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 382 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Boulé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 482 people named Boulé in 2010, about 1 in 690 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Boulé?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boul%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Boulé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.