Héroux
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Du nom germanique Hariwulf, de hari « armée » et wulf « loup »
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Héroux is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 140K
- FRFrance≈1 in 180K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
1,552 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Heroux in US United States, CA Canada, FR France and 3 more.
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)Du nom germanique Hariwulf, de hari « armée » et wulf « loup ».
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Héroux 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 | 1,552 | 1 in 214K | 1.6K | Heroux | 249 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Heroux | 104 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Heroux | 6 |
| FR France | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 179K | 42 | Heroux | 130 |
| IT Italy | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 427K | — | Heroux | 2 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Heroux | 2 |
1,552 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Bruno Hérouxb. 1868DEGerman painter (1868-1944)
- Omer Hérouxb. 1876CACanadian journalist (1876-1963)
- Robert Hérouxb. 1923CAprofessor at the Faculty of Forestry and Geodesy at Laval University
- Denis Hérouxb. 1940CACanadian film director and producer (1940-2015)
- Martin Hérouxb. 1953CACanadian film actor
- Michel T. Hérouxb. 1957CACanadian writer
- Alain Hérouxb. 1964CACanadian ice hockey player
- Yves Hérouxb. 1965CACanadian ice hockey player
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 1 country.
Reference works 3
- 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 Héroux mean?
- Recorded meaning: Du nom germanique Hariwulf, de hari « armée » et wulf « loup ».
- In which country does Héroux have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Héroux, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heroux.
- How common is the name Héroux?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,552 people named Héroux in 2010, about 1 in 214 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A9rouxThe 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, “Héroux”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.