Archambault
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from OFr Archamboult, from OG Ercanbald 'precious-bold'; first attested Archembold Wiverun 1130 P
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɑɹʃəmboʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Archambault is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 76K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 934K
- BEBelgium1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Archambault itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 76K (inferred from the name graph)
4,391 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Аршамбо in RU Russia.
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)
- OFrArchamboult(measured from records)
- OG Ercanbald'precious-bold'(measured from records)
from OFr Archamboult, from OG Ercanbald 'precious-bold'; first attested Archembold Wiverun 1130 P
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Archambault is read(measured from records)
Archambault 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.
- English71%
from OFr Archamboult, from OG Ercanbald 'precious-bold'; first attested Archembold Wiverun 1130 P
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Archembold Wiverun 1130 P; Robert Archenbold 1210 P (Gl); William Erchebaud 1239 FFSf; Thomas Herchebaud 1302 SRY; Agnes Archebald 1327 SRSf; Seath Archbutt 1616 FrY. OFr Archamboult, from OG Ercanbald ‘precious-bold’, found in DB (1086) as Erchenbaldus, Arcenbaldus and Arcebaldus.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- French21%
du nom germanique Arcanbald, de ercan « excellent, précieux » et bald « audacieux »
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
Archambault 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 | 4,391 | 1 in 76K | 4.4K | Archambault | 12 |
| ES Spain | 19 | 1 in 2.6M | 19 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 7 | 1 in 1.7M | 7 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 26M | — | Аршамбо | 15 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
4,391 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Louis Archambault Dorvignyb. 1742FRFrench writer
- Pierre Archambaultb. 1912FRFrench journalist (1912–1988)
- Jean-Jacques Archambaultb. 1919CACanadian engineer (1919-2001)
- Gilles Archambaultb. 1933CACanadian writer
- John Archb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican heavy metal singer
- Lee Archambaultb. 1960USastronaut, test pilot
- Sylvain Archambaultb. 1964CACanadian cineast
- François Archambaultb. 1968CAplaywright working in Quebec
- Louise Archambaultb. 1970CAFilm director and screenwriter
- Nico Archambaultb. 1984CAdancer
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.4K | #7,566 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.2K | #7,381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.1K | #7,744 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19 | #86,409 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #84,825 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #22,204 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Archambault mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr Archamboult, from OG Ercanbald 'precious-bold'; first attested Archembold Wiverun 1130 P Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Archambault?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɑɹʃəmboʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Archambault have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Archambault, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled archambault.
- Where is Archambault most common?
- Archambault is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 76 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Archambault?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,391 people named Archambault in 2010, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/archambaultThe 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, “Archambault”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.