Baudouin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Germanic elements bald 'bold' and win 'friend'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Baudouin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 61K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 82K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Germanic elements bald 'bold' and win 'friend'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baudouin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Baudouin | 1 |
| FR France | #690 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1.4K | Baudouin | 263 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 158K | 1 | — | 19 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Baudouin | 10 |
| BE Belgium | — | 193 | 1 in 61K | 194 | Baudouin | 74 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Baudouin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, French form meaning brave friend or protector.
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In French, a male given name, equivalent to English Baldwin or Dutch Boudewijn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Nom germanique, de bald + win, « audacieux ami ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, king of Belgium
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
French form of BALDWIN , common especially in Belgium, where it is borne by Baudouin I (b. 1930), King of the Belgians since 1951.
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)
- Pierre Antoine Baudouinb. 1723FRFrench painter (1723-1769)
- Louis-Marie Baudouinb. 1765FRFrench Catholic priest
- Eugène Baudouinb. 1842FRFrench painter (1842-1893)
- Manuel Achille Baudouinb. 1846FRFrench judge
- Pierre Baudouin-Bugnetb. 1889FRFrench politician (1889-1956)
- Charles Baudouinb. 1893FRFrench-Swiss psychoanalyst (1893–1963)
- Paul Baudouinb. 1894FRFrench politician and Foreign Minister (1894-1964)
- Denis Baudouinb. 1923FRFrench politician
- Henri Baudouinb. 1926FRFrench politician (1926–2020)
- Paule Baudouinb. 1984FRFrench handball player
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 32 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 957 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 884 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 846 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 816 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 681 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 613 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 443 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 194 | #9,314 |
Reference works 5
- 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 Baudouin mean, and where does it come from?
- From Germanic elements bald 'bold' and win 'friend'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Baudouin?
- In the etymology graph, Baldo, Baldovino and Baldovin are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Baudouin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Baudouin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baudouin.
- How common is the name Baudouin?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 193 people named Baudouin in 2008, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
- How common is Baudouin compared with other names?
- In France, Baudouin is the 690th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baudouinThe 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, “Baudouin” — the 690th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.