Bouillon
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: broth (water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bujɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bouillon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 9.1K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 14K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 28Kas Buyong
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 Bouillon 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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Buyong in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia.
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)
A clear seasoned broth made by simmering usually light meat, such as beef or chicken.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bouillon is read(measured from records)
Bouillon 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.
- French77%
broth (water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
de (Le) Bouillon, nom de plusieurs localités de diverses régions de France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English14%
A clear seasoned broth made by simmering usually light meat, such as beef or chicken.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Bouillon 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 | #980 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 675 | Bouillon | 258 |
| BE Belgium | #720 | 1,284 | 1 in 9.1K | 1.3K | Bouillon | 71 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Buyong | 26 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 473K | — | Buyong | 13 |
| US United States | — | 477 | 1 in 697K | 477 | Bouillon | 131 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Bouillon | 68 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Bouillon | 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Bouillon is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, stock, broth (water in which meat (or other food) has been boiled)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergneb. 1605FRnot in their usual nameFrench officer and politician (1605-1652)
- Pierre Bouillonb. 1773FRFrench painter (1776-1831)
- Gabriel Bouillonb. 1898FRFrench musician (1898–1984)
- Jo Bouillonb. 1908FRFrench conductor (1908–1984)
- Jean Bouillonb. 1926BEBelgian marine biologist (1926-2009)
- Jean-Claude Bouillonb. 1941FRFrench actor (1941–2017)
- Christophe Bouillonb. 1969FRFrench politician
- Francis Bouillonb. 1975USAmerican ice hockey player
- Bastien Bouillonb. 1985FRFrench actor
- Akio Bouillonson of Josephine Baker
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 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.3K | #961 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.2K | #1,016 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 909 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 844 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 761 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 747 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 675 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 643 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 638 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 627 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 550 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 548 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Bouillon come from?
- A clear seasoned broth made by simmering usually light meat, such as beef or chicken. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bouillon?
- A machine transcription gives /bujɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Bouillon mean?
- In French, broth (water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled)
- What are other forms of the name Bouillon?
- In the etymology graph, Bullion and Bouillion are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bouillon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Bouillon in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bouillon.
- Where is Bouillon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bouillon is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 9.1 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bouillon?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,284 people named Bouillon in 2008, about 1 in 9.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Bouillon compared with other names?
- In France, Bouillon is the 980th 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/bouillonThe 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, “Bouillon” — the 980th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.