Huguet
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Hu(gh)e or Hugo (see Hugh)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/yɟɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Huguet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 8.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 722K
- ESSpain1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the personal name Hu(gh)e or Hugo (see Hugh). A bearer of this name from the Poitou region of France is documented in Lachine, Quebec, in 1680, with the secondary surname Latour.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Huguet 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #482 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 1.1K | Huguet | 260 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,607 | 1 in 14K | 3.6K | Huguet | 72 |
| US United States | — | 461 | 1 in 722K | 471 | Huguet | 150 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 320 | 1 in 26K | 320 | Huguet | 31 |
| AR Argentina | — | 193 | 1 in 236K | 193 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 127 | 1 in 27K | 127 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Huguet is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Dérivé du nom germanique Hugo, de hug « intelligence, esprit ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of hugu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Charles Louis Huguet, marquis de Sémonvilleb. 1759FRFrench politician and diplomat (1759-1839)
- Louis Huguet-Chateaub. 1779FRFrench soldier and officer (1779–1814)
- Victor Huguetb. 1835FRFrench painter (1835-1902)
- Guy Huguetb. 1923FRFrench association football player (1923-1991)
- Soledad Gonzalez De Huguetb. 1934ARArgentine chess player
- Joan Antoni Solans Huguetb. 1941ESSpanish architect (1941-2019)
- Joan Reñé Huguetb. 1958ESSpanish politician
- Sonia Huguetb. 1975FRFrench cyclist
- Jovanna Huguetb. 1980CACanadian actress
- Yann Huguetb. 1984FRroad bicycle racer
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 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.6K | #1,431 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.6K | #1,431 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 937 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 907 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Huguet come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Hu(gh)e or Hugo (see Hugh). A bearer of this name from the Poitou region of France is documented in Lachine, Quebec, in 1680, with the secondary surname Latour. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Huguet?
- A machine transcription gives /yɟɛ/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Huguet mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Hu(gh)e or Hugo (see Hugh).
- In which country does Huguet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.3 thousand people named Huguet in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huguet.
- How common is the name Huguet?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,607 people named Huguet, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Huguet compared with other names?
- In France, Huguet is the 482nd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/huguetThe 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, “Huguet” — the 482nd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.