Coulombe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Du nom latin Columba, de columba ‘colombe, pigeon’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kaʊˈɫoʊmbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Coulombe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 156K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- 1 in 156K (inferred from the name graph)
2,134 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Du nom latin Columba, de columba ‘colombe, pigeon’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Where in the world
(measured from records)Coulombe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,134 | 1 in 156K | 2.1K | Coulombe | 91 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Coulombe | 137 |
| FR France | — | — | 9 | Coulombe | 113 |
| GT Guatemala | — | — | — | Coulombe | 2 |
2,134 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)- Charles Jérémie Coulombeb. 1846CACanadian politician
- Joe Coulombeb. 1930USAmerican businessman (1930-2020)
- Guy Coulombeb. 1936CACanadian civil servant (1936-2011)
- Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcouxb. 1938CACanadian composer (1938–1985)
- Carmen Coulombeb. 1946CACanadian artist (1946–2008)
- Martine Coulombeb. 1953CACanadian politician
- Charles A. Coulombeb. 1960USAmerican historian (1960-)
- François Coulombe-Fortierb. 1984CATaekwondo practitioner
- Patrick Coulombeb. 1985CACanadian ice hockey player
- Daniel Coulombeb. 1989USAmerican baseball player
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,090 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,434 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,183 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 7 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Coulombe?
- A machine transcription gives /kaʊˈɫoʊmbi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Coulombe mean?
- Recorded meaning: Du nom latin Columba, de columba ‘colombe, pigeon’.
- In which country does Coulombe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Coulombe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coulombe.
- Where is Coulombe most common?
- Coulombe is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 156 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Coulombe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,134 people named Coulombe in 2010, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coulombeThe 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, “Coulombe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.