Courtois
surname · Latin script
Meaning: courtly
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Courtois is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 4.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- HTHaiti≈1 in 5.4K
- BEBelgium1 in 8.4K
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
- 284 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)courtly
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Courtois 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 | #262 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 1.7K | Courtois | 284 |
| HT Haiti | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | listed | — | 6 |
| BE Belgium | #454 | 1,397 | 1 in 8.4K | 1.4K | Courtois | 74 |
| US United States | — | 1,271 | 1 in 262K | 1.3K | Courtois | 163 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 253K | 18 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Courtois | 84 |
| SN Senegal | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 41K | listed | — | 3 |
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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the ht-potomitan-names 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Courtois 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, de courtois, surnom d’un individu poli et raffiné
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)- Jacques Courtoisb. 1621FRBurgundian painter (1621-1676)
- Guillaume Courtoisb. 1628FRFrench painter of the Late Baroque (1628-1679)
- Bernard Courtoisb. 1777FRchemist (1777-1838)
- Gustave Courtoisb. 1852FRFrench painter (1852-1923)
- Stéphane Courtoisb. 1947FRFrench historian
- Jean-Patrick Courtoisb. 1951FRFrench politician
- Miguel Courtoisb. 1960FRFrench film director, film producer and screenwriter
- Laurence Courtoisb. 1976BEBelgian tennis player
- Valérie Courtoisb. 1990BEBelgian volleyball player
- Thibaut Courtoisb. 1992BEBelgian association football player (born 1992)
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Courtois mean, and where does it come from?
- courtly Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Courtois?
- In the etymology graph, Höflich is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Courtois have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Courtois in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled courtois.
- How common is the name Courtois?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,397 people named Courtois in 2008, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Courtois compared with other names?
- In France, Courtois is the 262nd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/courtoisThe 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, “Courtois” — the 262nd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.