Belleau
surname · Latin script
Meaning: De plusieurs localités nommées Belleau en France, ou de l’ancien français bel « beau »
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɪˈɫoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Belleau is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
De plusieurs localités nommées Belleau en France, ou de l’ancien français bel « beau ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Belleau is read(measured from records)
Belleau 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.
- English63%
village, France
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French30%
De plusieurs localités nommées Belleau en France, ou de l’ancien français bel « beau ».
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Belleau counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 637 | — |
| FR France | — | 85 | — |
| DM Dominica | — | 7 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 7 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 7 | — |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
- Rémy Belleaub. 1528FRFrench writer
- Narcisse-Fortunat Belleaub. 1808CACanadian politician (1808-1894)
- Isidore-Noël Belleaub. 1848CACanadian politician (1848–1936)
- Bernard Belleaub. 1925CAmolecular pharmocologist (1925–1989)
- André Belleaub. 1930CACanadian essayist and professor (1930-1986)
- Janick Belleaub. 1946CACanadian poet and writer
- 2Facesb. 1979CAnot in their usual nameCanadian rapper
- Anthony Belleaub. 1996FRFrench rugby union player (1996-)
- Ian BelleauCACanadian male curler
- Joseph BelleauCAteacher, lawyer, linguist, philologist and writer
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 637 | #35,345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 628 | #34,150 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 618 | #38,554 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 95 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 89 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 88 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 85 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 31 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Belleau?
- A machine transcription gives /bɪˈɫoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Belleau mean?
- Recorded meaning: De plusieurs localités nommées Belleau en France, ou de l’ancien français bel « beau ».
- In which country does Belleau have the most bearers?
- Belleau is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Belleau?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/belleauThe 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, “Belleau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.