Boissier
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/bwasje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boissier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: subsequently, for a carpenter or joiner, an OF agent noun from bois wood (see Bois). Var. (in the sense ‘forester’): Bosquier (Normandy). Cogns.
- FRFrance≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 247K
- SESweden≈1 in 893K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)subsequently, for a carpenter or joiner, an OF agent noun from bois wood (see Bois). Var. (in the sense ‘forester’): Bosquier (Normandy). Cogns. (chiefly in the sense ‘forester’): Eng.: Bos(c)her, Boshere, Boshier, Busher. Prov.: Bousquier; Bouscatier, Bouscayre. Sp.: Bosquero. Cat.: Bosquer. It.: Boscaro, Boscari, Bosch(i)ero, Boschier(i). Dims.: Fr.: Boissereau. Prov.: Bouscarel, Bouscayrol. It.: Boscarello, Bosca(r)ino, Busca(r)ino; Boscariolo, Boscaroli; Boscherini. Boissy Boman 61
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world
(measured from records)Boissier 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 290 | Boissier | 210 |
| US United States | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6M | listed | Boissier | 44 |
| CH Switzerland | 34 | 1 in 247K | 34 | Boissier | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | listed | Boissier | 16 |
| ES Spain | 21 | 1 in 2.4M | 21 | Boissier | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 11 | 1 in 1.1M | 11 | Boissier | 8 |
| SE Sweden | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 893K | — | Boissier | 8 |
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 noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)- Caroline Boissier-Butinib. 1786CHSwiss pianist and composer (1786-1836)
- Pierre Edmond Boissierb. 1810CHSwiss botanist, explorer and mathematician (1810-1885)
- Valérie de Gasparinb. 1813CHnot in their usual nameSwiss woman of letters (1813-1894)
- Gaston Boissierb. 1823FRFrench classical scholar, and secretary of the Académie française (1823–1908)
- Caroline Barbey-Boissierb. 1847CHSwiss botanist and author (1847-1918)
- Léopold Boissierb. 1893CHSwiss advocate, diplomat, university teacher and president of the ICRC (1893-1968)
- Bernard Boissierb. 1952FRFrench footballer
- Laurence Boissierb. 1965CHSwiss writer, artist, interior and designer (1965–2022)
- Rémy Boissierb. 1994FRFrench association football player
- Nicolás Garcíab. 1995ESnot in their usual nameSpanish diver
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 402 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 398 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 385 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 372 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 347 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 318 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 310 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 293 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 290 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 258 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 244 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 34 | #24,910 |
Reference works 3
- 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 Boissier mean, and where does it come from?
- subsequently, for a carpenter or joiner, an OF agent noun from bois wood (see Bois). Var. (in the sense ‘forester’): Bosquier (Normandy). Cogns. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Boissier?
- A machine transcription gives /bwasje/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Boissier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Boissier in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boissier.
- How common is the name Boissier?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 34 people named Boissier in 2024, about 1 in 247 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boissierThe 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, “Boissier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.