Croteau
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: a habitational surname, Croteau
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɹəˈtoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Croteau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 37K
- USUnited States1 in 74K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
4,525 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a habitational surname, Croteau
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Croteau is read(measured from records)
Croteau is one spelling over 2 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.
- English80%
Gary, hockey player
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French10%
a habitational surname, Croteau
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
nom d’une localité dans l’Eure-et-Loir (Centre)
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Croteau 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 | 4,525 | 1 in 74K | 4.5K | Croteau | 290 |
| CA Canada | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Croteau | 166 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Croteau | 31 |
| DE Germany | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Croteau | 14 |
| IT Italy | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Croteau | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Croteau | 9 |
| IE Ireland | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Croteau | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Croteau | 1 |
4,525 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)
- Jacques Croteaub. 1921CA(born 1921)
- Michel Noëlb. 1922CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actor (1922-1993)
- Jean-Jacques Croteaub. 1930CACanadian politician
- Denis Croteaub. 1932CACanadian Roman Catholic bishop
- Gary Croteaub. 1946CACanadian ice hockey player
- Marie-Danielle Croteaub. 1953Quebec novelist and children's writer
- Anne-Marie Croteaub. 1964CACanadian information technology professor
- François Croteaub. 1972CAMontreal City Councillor
- Maxime Brinck-Croteaub. 1986CACanadian fencer
- Olivier CroteauCAQuebec writer
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.5K | #6,834 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.5K | #7,361 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.2K | #7,676 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Croteau mean, and where does it come from?
- a habitational surname, Croteau Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Croteau?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹəˈtoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Croteau have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Croteau, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled croteau.
- How common is the name Croteau?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,525 people named Croteau in 2010, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/croteauThe 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, “Croteau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.