Casaubon
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: From a medieval French nickname for someone who lives in a fine house, from Old Provençal casal 'cottage' + bon 'good'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kasaubon/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Casaubon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 288K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 403K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 288K (inferred from the name graph)
158 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From a medieval French nickname for someone who lives in a fine house, from Old Provençal casal 'cottage' + bon 'good'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Casaubon is read
(measured from records)Casaubon 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.
- Spanish38%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Casaubon in Spanish.
- French33%
nom de plusieurs localités dans les Pyrénées-Atlantiques (Aquitaine)
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English26%
From a medieval French nickname for someone who lives in a fine house, from Old Provençal casal 'cottage' + bon 'good'.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
A surname. Often refers to French intellectual Isaac Casaubon.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The Rev. Edward, character in
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
George Eliot's Middlennarch
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)Casaubon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 158 | 1 in 288K | 158 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 124 | 1 in 403K | 124 | — | — |
| US United States | 105 | 1 in 3.2M | 108 | Casaubon | 54 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | — | 18 | Casaubon | 102 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Casaubon | 47 |
158 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Arnauld Casaubonb. 1525(1525-1586)
- Isaac Casaubonb. 1559CHClassical scholar and philologist (1559–1614)
- Méric Casaubonb. 1599CHFrench-English classical scholar (1599–1671)
- François-Honoré Casaubon de Manibanb. 1684FRFrench priest
- Janine Darceyb. 1917FRnot in their usual nameactress (1917–1993)
- Jakes Casaubonb. 1925FRBasque researcher, radio presenter, and pelotari
- Pascual Casaubonb. 1944ES1944-
- Édouard Casaubonb. 1944CAlibrarian at Université Laval
- Marcelo Ebrardb. 1959MXnot in their usual nameMexican politician
- William CasaubonPeerage person ID=383882
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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 158 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 124 | #23,674 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 124 | #23,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 108 | #150,935 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 105 | #154,907 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 29 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Casaubon mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval French nickname for someone who lives in a fine house, from Old Provençal casal 'cottage' + bon 'good'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Casaubon?
- In Spanish /kasaubon/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Casaubon have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 158 people named Casaubon, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Casaubon most common?
- Casaubon is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 288 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Casaubon?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 158 people named Casaubon, about 1 in 288 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/casaubonThe 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, “Casaubon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.