Bourguignon
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Burgundian (of, from or relating to Burgundy, a geographic region and former province, now part of the administrative region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/buuɾɡiɡnun/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Bourguignon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 5.6K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 99K
- NLNetherlands1 in 213K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
2,111 people, 2008
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Burgundian (of, from or relating to Burgundy, a geographic region and former province, now part of the administrative region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bourguignon is read
(measured from records)Bourguignon is one spelling over 3 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.
- French76%
Burgundian (of, from or relating to Burgundy, a geographic region and former province, now part of the administrative region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Surnom d'un individu originaire de Bourgogne.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English9.7%
Beef bourguignon, or a similar dish replacing beef with some other ingredient.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese8.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bourguignon in Portuguese.
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)Bourguignon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 2,111 | 1 in 5.6K | 2.1K | Bourguignon | 10 |
| BR Brazil | 875 | 1 in 242K | 875 | Bourguignon | 63 |
| US United States | 317 | 1 in 1M | 344 | Bourguignon | 25 |
| CH Switzerland | 85 | 1 in 99K | 85 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 81 | 1 in 213K | 81 | Bourguignon | 4 |
| AR Argentina | 51 | 1 in 892K | 51 | Bourguignon | 20 |
2,111 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)- Claude Sébastien Bourguignonb. 1760FRFrench jurist
- Serge Bourguignonb. 1928FRFrench film director and screenwriter
- Michel Bourguignonb. 1928FRFrench photographer
- Pierre Bourguignonb. 1942FRmember of the National Assembly of France (1942–2019)
- François Bourguignonb. 1945FRFrench economist
- Jean-Pierre Bourguignonb. 1947FRFrench mathematician
- Anémoneb. 1950FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1950–2019)
- Claude Bourguignonb. 1951FRFrench organic farmer
- Brigitte Bourguignonb. 1959FRFrench politician
- Thierry Bourguignonb. 1962FRFrench bicycle racer
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2.1K | #475 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.9K | #525 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 875 | #10,443 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 344 | #62,792 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 317 | #63,068 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 300 | #62,396 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 85 | #12,519 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 81 | #22,300 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 51 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Bourguignon mean, and where does it come from?
- Burgundian (of, from or relating to Burgundy, a geographic region and former province, now part of the administrative region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bourguignon?
- In Portuguese /buuɾɡiɡnun/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Bourguignon have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Bourguignon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bourguignon.
- Where is Bourguignon most common?
- Bourguignon is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bourguignon?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 2,111 people named Bourguignon in 2008, about 1 in 5.6 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bourguignon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bourguignonThe 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, “Bourguignon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.