Boulay
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de (Le) Boulay, nom de plusieurs localités à travers la France
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bulai/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boulay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 7.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 24K
- USUnited States1 in 231K
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)
- Sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
de (Le) Boulay, nom de plusieurs localités à travers la France.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boulay 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 | #460 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 1.3K | Boulay | 274 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Boulay | 123 |
| US United States | — | 1,440 | 1 in 231K | 1.4K | Boulay | 166 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Boulay | 37 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 688K | — | Boulay | 2 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Boulay | 5 |
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); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph Boulay de la Meurtheb. 1761FRFrench politician (1761-1840)
- Herménégilde Boulayb. 1861CACanadian politician (1861–1942)
- Joséphine Boulayb. 1869FRFrench composer
- Arsène Boulayb. 1910FRFrench politician (1910–2001)
- Diana Boulayb. 1946CACanadian sculptor (born 1946)
- Olivier Boulayb. 1957FRFrench automobile engineer
- François Boulayb. 1959CAplaywright working in Quebec
- Isabelle Boulayb. 1972CACanadian singer
- Steevy Boulayb. 1980FRFrench actor
- Étienne Boulayb. 1983CACanadian player of Canadian and American football
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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.4K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #18,950 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,007 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,326 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 914 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Boulay?
- A machine transcription gives /bulai/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Boulay mean?
- Recorded meaning: de (Le) Boulay, nom de plusieurs localités à travers la France.
- In which country does Boulay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named Boulay in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boulay.
- How common is the name Boulay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,440 people named Boulay in 2010, about 1 in 231 thousand residents.
- How common is Boulay compared with other names?
- In France, Boulay is the 460th 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/boulayThe 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, “Boulay” — the 460th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.