Bocquet
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a medieval nickname for a man thought to resemble a goat in appearance or lecherousness; from French, literally ‘little goat’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɔscɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bocquet is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- BEBelgium
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a medieval nickname for a man thought to resemble a goat in appearance or lecherousness; from French, literally ‘little goat’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
- Paul Bocquetb. 1868FRFrench painter (1868-1947)
- Joan Lamote de Grignonb. 1872ESnot in their usual nameCatalan pianist, conductor and composer (1872-1949)
- Roland Bocquetb. 1878GBBritish composer (1878-1945)
- Roger Bocquetb. 1921CHSwiss footballer (1921–1994)
- Maurice Bocquetb. 1921FRFrench cyclist (1921-1997)
- Louis Bocquetb. 1922FRFrench cyclist (1922-1973)
- Alain Bocquetb. 1946FRFrench politician
- Gavin Bocquetb. 1953GBBritish scenographer
- Éric Bocquetb. 1957FRFrench politician
- Julie Bocquetb. 1977BEBelgian criminologist and psychotherapist, biological daughter of Claude François
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 823 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 772 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 526 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 368 | #4,421 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Bocquet mean, and where does it come from?
- from a medieval nickname for a man thought to resemble a goat in appearance or lecherousness; from French, literally ‘little goat’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Bocquet?
- A machine transcription gives /bɔscɛ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Bocquet have the most bearers?
- Bocquet is most frequently recorded in France.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bocquetThe 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
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bocquet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.