Coulon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: synonym of Calavon (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ku.lɔ̃/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Coulon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 9.2K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 77K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Coulon
- French:/ku.lɔ̃/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)synonym of Calavon
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Coulon is found
(measured from records)Coulon 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 | #236 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 1.6K | Coulon | 306 |
| BE Belgium | #688 | 1,274 | 1 in 9.2K | 1.3K | Coulon | 64 |
| US United States | — | 953 | 1 in 349K | 1.1K | Coulon | 132 |
| AR Argentina | — | 231 | 1 in 197K | 231 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 301K | — | Coulon | 44 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 109 | 1 in 77K | 109 | Coulon | 34 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)- Jean-François Coulonb. 1764FRFrench ballet dancer
- Eugène Coulonb. 1874FRFrench water polo player (1874–1954)
- Jean-Michel Coulonb. 1920FRFrench painter (1920–2014)
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Coulon mean, and where does it come from?
- synonym of Calavon Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Coulon?
- In French /ku.lɔ̃/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Coulon?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Coulon in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coulon. After it come Belgium, United States, Argentina and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Coulon?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,274 people named Coulon in 2008, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Coulon compared with other names?
- In France, Coulon is the 236th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Coulon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coulonThe 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, “Coulon” — the 236th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.