Chevrier
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chevrier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: goatherd.
- FRFrance≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 28K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 38K
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
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
goatherd
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chevrier 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 | #639 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 881 | Chevrier | 263 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Chevrier | 108 |
| US United States | — | 414 | 1 in 803K | 450 | Chevrier | 131 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 222 | 1 in 38K | 222 | Chevrier | 26 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 332K | — | Chevrier | 3 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 500K | — | Chevrier | 7 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Chevrier 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, Surnom d’après le métier de chevrier.
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)
- François-Antoine Chevrierb. 1721FRFrench writer (1721-1762)
- Marie-Louis-Félix Chevrier de Corcellesb. 1782FRFrench politician
- Antoine Chevrierb. 1826FRFrench presbyter (1826–1879)
- René de Buxeuilb. 1881FRnot in their usual nameFrench composer (1881-1959)
- Lionel Chevrierb. 1903CAMember of the Canadian House of Commons (1903-1987)
- Jean Chevrierb. 1915FRFrench actor (1915-1975)
- Arno Chevrierb. 1953FRFrench actor
- Philippe Chevrierb. 1960CHSwiss chef
- Randy Chevrierb. 1976CACanadian football long snapper
- Clément Chevrierb. 1992FRFrench 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 967 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 961 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 881 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 880 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 776 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 702 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 547 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 450 | #50,251 |
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 Chevrier mean, and where does it come from?
- goatherd Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Chevrier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Chevrier in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chevrier.
- How common is the name Chevrier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 414 people named Chevrier in 2010, about 1 in 803 thousand residents.
- How common is Chevrier compared with other names?
- In France, Chevrier is the 639th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Chevrier” — the 639th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.