Toussaint
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Toussaint is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Haiti than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Chosen by parents who wish to invoke the blessing and protection of ‘all the saints’ (tous les saints); often given to a boy born on the feast of All Saints.
- BEBelgium1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 6.2K
- USUnited States1 in 45K
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.
- Haiti (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 291 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147 (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Chosen by parents who wish to invoke the blessing and protection of ‘all the saints’ (tous les saints); often given to a boy born on the feast of All Saints.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Toussaint 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HT Haiti | #3 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 529 | listed | Toussaint | 27 |
| FR France | #307 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 4.2K | Toussaint | 291 |
| US United States | — | 7,441 | 1 in 45K | 8.1K | Toussaint | 262 |
| BE Belgium | #77 | 3,770 | 1 in 3.1K | 3.8K | Toussaint | 92 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 81K | 509 | Toussaint | 54 |
| DM Dominica | — | 506 | 1 in 147 | 506 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | — | 154 | 1 in 734 | 154 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 86 | 1 in 1.2K | 86 | — | — |
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 prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; the ht-potomitan-names register; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Toussaint is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, posed of the elements tous (pi.) all + saints saints. The name was given to someone who was born on All Saints’ Day (1 November), or chosen as an invocation of the pro¬ tection of all the saints of the calendar. Cf. Santoro.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In French, All Saints Day
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, De Toussaint, nom donné à un enfant né durant cette période de l’année ou le jour même.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
French: name chosen by parents who wish to invoke the blessing and protection of ‘all the saints’ (French tous (les) saints ) for their son. The name is also often given to a boy born on the feast of All Saints (cf. SANTOS ).
as a word
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)
- Allen Toussaintb. 1938USAmerican musician, songwriter and record producer (1938–2015)
- Olivier Toussaintb. 1943FRFrench composer, singer, producer
- Éric Toussaintb. 1954BEBelgian historian
- Jean-Philippe Toussaintb. 1957BEBelgian writer and filmmaker
- Anne-Dominique Toussaintb. 1959BEBelgian film producer
- Lorraine Toussaintb. 1960USTrinidadian actress
- Beth Toussaintb. 1962USAmerican actress
- Steve Toussaintb. 1965GBBritish actor
- Kid Toussaintb. 1980BEBelgian writer
- Lindon Victorb. 1993GDnot in their usual nameGrenadian male decathlete
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 60 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.1K | #4,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.4K | #4,759 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.7K | #5,598 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3.8K | #200 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 3.5K | #211 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.5K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 509 | #11,218 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 506 | #15 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 154 | #95 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 86 | #176 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| HT Haiti | Potomitan — Noms et prénoms haïtiens (Haitian name lexicon) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Toussaint mean, and where does it come from?
- Chosen by parents who wish to invoke the blessing and protection of ‘all the saints’ (tous les saints); often given to a boy born on the feast of All Saints. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Toussaint have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Toussaint in Haiti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toussaint.
- Where is Toussaint most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Toussaint is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 147 people — even though Haiti holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Toussaint?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,441 people named Toussaint in 2010, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Toussaint compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Toussaint is the 3rd most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Toussaint” — the 3rd most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.