Huguenot
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th century
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Huguenot is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- FIFinland
- ZASouth Africa
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th century.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Huguenot is read(measured from records)
Huguenot 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.
- French83%
Le mot fut, à l’origine, le résultat d’une « collision » entre le prénom Hugues et le mot allemand Eidgenossen qui signifie « confédérés ». Il n’avait pas le sens de réformé, qu’il n’acquit que vers 1532, mais désignait, d’abord en Suisse et plus précisément à Genève, des patriotes opposés aux partisans du duc de Savoie. Le chef de ces patriotes se nommait Hugues Besançon.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- English47%
A member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th century.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
French Protestant sect
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Caroline HuguenotCHSwiss archaeologist
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 139 | #8,453 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 123 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 110 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 110 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 105 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 103 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 95 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 49 | — |
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 Huguenot mean, and where does it come from?
- A member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th century. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Huguenot have the most bearers?
- Huguenot is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/huguenotThe 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, “Huguenot”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.