Bourgoin
loc · Latin script
Meaning: gundy (OF Bourgogne), a region of E Erance having Dijon as its centre
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Bourgoin is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 257 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)gundy (OF Bourgogne), a region of E Erance having Dijon as its centre. The area was invaded by the Burgundii, a Gmc tribe from whom it takes its name, in ad c.480. The duchy of Burgundy, created in 877 by Charles 11, King of the West Franks, was extremely powerful in the later Middle Ages, esp. under Philip the Bold (1342-1404; duke from 1363).
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bourgoin 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 | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 717 | Bourgoin | 257 |
| US United States | — | 1.3K | — | 144 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 53 | — | 19 |
| BE Belgium | — | 17 | — | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 17 | — | 10 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Bourgoin 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 French, Même origine que Bourguignon.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)- Marie-Thérèse-Étiennette Bourgoinb. 1781FRFrench actress (1781-1833)
- Edme-Alfred Bourgoinb. 1836FRFrench physician and politician (1836–1897)
- Jules Bourgoinb. 1838FRFrench architect (1838–1908)
- Marie Désiré Bourgoinb. 1839FRFrench painter (1839–1911)
- Jean Bourgoinb. 1913FRFrench cinematographer (1913-1991)
- Gérard Bourgoinb. 1939FRFrench businessperson and politician
- Stéphane Bourgoinb. 1953FRFrench true crime writer
- Louise Bourgoinb. 1981FRFrench actress
- Thierry BourgoinFRFrench entomologist
- Auguste BourgoinFRFrench entomologist
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,541 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,615 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,497 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 980 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 921 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 879 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 806 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 799 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 754 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 717 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 683 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Where does the name Bourgoin come from?
- gundy (OF Bourgogne), a region of E Erance having Dijon as its centre. The area was invaded by the Burgundii, a Gmc tribe from whom it takes its name, in ad c.480. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Bourgoin mean?
- Recorded meaning: gundy (OF Bourgogne), a region of E Erance having Dijon as its centre.
- In which country does Bourgoin have the most bearers?
- Bourgoin is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled bourgoin.
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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, “Bourgoin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.