Deschamps

surname · Latin script

Meaning: de des Champs, dérivé de Saint-Pierre-ès-Champs, nom d’une localité dans l’Oise

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/deʃɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Deschamps is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 14K
  • USUnited States1 in 159K

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)

≈21,000 people, est.

Sources
316 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in French

de des Champs, dérivé de Saint-Pierre-ès-Champs, nom d’une localité dans l’Oise.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Deschamps 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.

Where Deschamps is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#119≈21,000 est.≈1 in 3.3K2.6KDeschamps316
CN China—≈6,700 est.≈1 in 208K—Deschamps5
CA Canada—≈2,800 est.≈1 in 14K—Deschamps140
US United States—2,0971 in 159K2.1KDeschamps180
BE Belgium—1,1961 in 9.8K1.2KDeschamps59
CH Switzerland—1531 in 55K153Deschamps32
DM Dominica—461 in 1.6K46——

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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Deschamps is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Des-Champs, Déschaemps, Déschämps

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Dominican Republic, Mexico, Argentina, United States

    Also written Dësčhåmps

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Déschamps, Des-Champs

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Deschamps 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 Croatian, francuski pjesnik, napisao je prvu raspravu o stihotvorstvu ( Umijeće pjevanja )

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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)

12001400160018002000Eustache Deschamps, b. 1340Émile Deschamps, b. 1791Adolphe Dechamps, b. 1807Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps, b. 1824Gaston Deschamps, b. 1861Jean Deschamps, b. 1920Hubert Deschamps, b. 1923Jérôme Deschamps, b. 1947André Deschamps, b. 1953Didier Deschamps, b. 1968

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Deschamps, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Deschamps
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19513.7K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19613.7K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19413.4K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19713.3K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19213K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19813K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19312.6K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19912.6K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19012.4K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19112.2K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.1K#14,279
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202K#14,217

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Deschamps?
A machine transcription gives /deʃɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
What does the name Deschamps mean?
Recorded meaning: de des Champs, dérivé de Saint-Pierre-ès-Champs, nom d’une localité dans l’Oise.
In which country does Deschamps have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Deschamps in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled deschamps.
Where is Deschamps most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Deschamps is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Deschamps?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,097 people named Deschamps in 2010, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
How common is Deschamps compared with other names?
In France, Deschamps is the 119th 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, “Deschamps” — the 119th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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