Doucet
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A sweetened dish
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈduːsɪt/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Doucet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 17K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 53K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 210K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
6,267 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A sweetened dish.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Doucet is read
(measured from records)Doucet 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.
- English50%
A sweetened dish.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French42%
soft; tender
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
soit de (Le) Doucet, nom de plusieurs localités en France, ou dérivé de doux, surnom d’après le caractère d’un individu.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Doucet 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 | — | 6,267 | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Doucet | 312 |
| BE Belgium | — | 687 | 1 in 17K | 687 | — | 23 |
| AR Argentina | — | 144 | 1 in 316K | 144 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 87 | 1 in 575K | 87 | — | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 40 | 1 in 210K | 40 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 12 | 1 in 464K | 12 | — | 2 |
| DZ Algeria | #257 | — | — | — | Doucet | 1 |
6,267 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Doucet is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In fro, sweet (of food or drink)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, Sweet-tasting, sugary.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Camille Doucetb. 1812FRFrench poet and playwright (1812-1895)
- Jacques Doucetb. 1853FRFrench fashion designer and art collector (1853–1929)
- Jacques Doucetb. 1853FRFrench Olympic sailor
- Henri-Lucien Doucetb. 1856FRFrench painter (1856-1895)
- Carmencitab. 1868ESnot in their usual nameSpanish-style dancer (1868-1910)
- Catherine Doucetb. 1875USactress (1875-1958)
- Eduardo Lonardib. 1896ARnot in their usual nameDictatorship of Argentina (1896-1956)
- Philippe Doucetb. 1961FRFrench politician
- Paul Doucetb. 1970CACanadian actor (b. 1970)
- Grégory Doucetb. 1973FRFrench politician
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.3K | #5,545 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.1K | #5,549 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6K | #5,379 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 687 | #2,083 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 655 | #2,207 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 144 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 87 | #30,334 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 87 | #30,268 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 40 | #22,077 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 12 | #43,596 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- What does the name Doucet mean, and where does it come from?
- A sweetened dish. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Doucet?
- In English /ˈduːsɪt/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Doucet have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Doucet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doucet.
- Where is Doucet most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Doucet is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Doucet?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,267 people named Doucet in 2010, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
- How common is Doucet compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Doucet is the 257th most common surname of 89,473 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/doucetThe 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, “Doucet” — the 257th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.