Charbonnier
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: coalman
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃaʁbɔnje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Charbonnier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 86K
- BEBelgium1 in 301K
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.
- Uruguay (measured from records)
- Sources
- 2 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
695 people
Reference-verified
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
coalman
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Charbonnier is read(measured from records)
Charbonnier is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French89%
coalman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.2%
A species of fungus in the family Tricholomataceae, Tricholoma portentosum.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Charbonnier 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | 695 | 1 in 4.9K | 695 | — |
| US United States | 234 | 1 in 1.4M | 242 | — |
| CH Switzerland | 98 | 1 in 86K | 98 | — |
| ES Spain | 43 | 1 in 1.2M | 43 | — |
| BE Belgium | 39 | 1 in 301K | 39 | — |
695 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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: INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Jean-Baptiste-Frézal Charbonnierb. 1842FRRoman Catholic bishop (1842-1888)
- Pierre Charbonnierb. 1897FRFrench painter and decorator (1897-1978)
- Jean-Claude Chabrierb. 1931FRnot in their usual nameFrench musicologist, writer and physician
- Laurent Charbonnierb. 1958FRFrench film director
- Jean-François Charbonnierb. 1959FRFrench association football player (1959–2020)
- Lionel Charbonnierb. 1966FRFrench football manager (born 1966)
- Charbb. 1967FRnot in their usual nameFrench caricaturist and journalist (1967-2015)
- Nicolas Charbonnierb. 1981FRsailor
- Caecilia Charbonnierb. 1981CHSwiss tennis player
- Gaëtan Charbonnierb. 1988FRFrench footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 695 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 242 | #83,650 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 234 | #80,926 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 218 | #80,812 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 98 | #11,259 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 43 | #49,732 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 43 | #49,226 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 39 | #31,205 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Charbonnier mean, and where does it come from?
- coalman Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Charbonnier?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃaʁbɔnje/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Charbonnier have the most bearers?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted about 695 people named Charbonnier, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Charbonnier most common?
- Charbonnier is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Charbonnier?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 695 people named Charbonnier, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/charbonnierThe 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, “Charbonnier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.