Deschamps
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de des Champs, dérivé de Saint-Pierre-ès-Champs, nom d’une localité dans l’Oise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Dominica, 2025
/de.ʃɑ̃/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Deschamps is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- DMDominica1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.3K
- CACanada≈1 in 14K
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)
- Record sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)de des Champs, dérivé de Saint-Pierre-ès-Champs, nom d’une localité dans l’Oise.
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #119 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 2.6K | Deschamps | 316 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Deschamps | 140 |
| US United States | — | 2,097 | 1 in 159K | 2.1K | Deschamps | 180 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,196 | 1 in 9.8K | 1.2K | Deschamps | 59 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,118 | 1 in 189K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 153 | 1 in 55K | 153 | Deschamps | 32 |
| DM Dominica | — | 46 | 1 in 1.6K | 46 | — | — |
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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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 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)- Eustache Deschampsb. 1340FRFrench poet
- Émile Deschampsb. 1791FRFrench poet
- Adolphe Dechampsb. 1807BEnot in their usual nameBelgian politician (1807-1875)
- Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschampsb. 1824FRFrench architect and gardener (1824-1873)
- Gaston Deschampsb. 1861FRFrench politician and journalist
- Jean Deschampsb. 1920FRFrench actor (1920–2007)
- Hubert Deschampsb. 1923FRFrench actor (1923-1998)
- Jérôme Deschampsb. 1947FRFrench actor and director
- André Deschampsb. 1953CACanadian general
- Didier Deschampsb. 1968FRFrench association football player and coach
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 3.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 3.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 2.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 2.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,279 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #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?
- In French /de.ʃɑ̃/ (Wiktionary).
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deschampsThe 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, “Deschamps” — the 119th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.