Labossiere
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Norman habitational name from a common village name La Boissiere, meaning ‘wooded area’, from bois ‘wood’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫæbəsiɛɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Labossiere is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 55K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 311K
- HTHaiti≈1 in 15K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
1,069 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Norman habitational name from a common village name La Boissiere, meaning ‘wooded area’, from bois ‘wood’. 2. possibly a metronymic, from a feminine derivative of Bossier ‘cooper’, denoting the ‘wife of the cooper’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Labossiere 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 | — | 1,069 | 1 in 311K | 1.1K | Labossiere | 179 |
| HT Haiti | #268 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Labossiere | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Labossiere | 94 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 217K | — | Labossiere | 12 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Labossiere | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Labossiere | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Labossiere | 1 |
1,069 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. 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)
- Gord Labossiereb. 1940CACanadian ice hockey player
- Marie LabossièreCACanadian author
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,387 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,691 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 970 | #24,224 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Labossiere come from?
- 1. Norman habitational name from a common village name La Boissiere, meaning ‘wooded area’, from bois ‘wood’. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Labossiere?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫæbəsiɛɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Labossiere mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Norman habitational name from a common village name La Boissiere, meaning ‘wooded area’, from bois ‘wood’.
- In which country does Labossiere have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Labossiere, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled labossiere.
- How common is the name Labossiere?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,069 people named Labossiere in 2010, about 1 in 311 thousand residents.
- How common is Labossiere compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Labossiere is the 268th most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/labossiereThe 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, “Labossiere” — the 268th most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.