Duchêne
surname · Latin script
Meaning: voir Duchesne
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/dyʃɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Duchêne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 117K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 199K
- BEBelgium1 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
1,673 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Duchene in US United States, DE Germany, AG Antigua & Barbuda and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)voir Duchesne.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Duchêne 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 | — | 1,673 | 1 in 199K | 1.7K | Duchene | 233 |
| BE Belgium | — | 860 | 1 in 14K | 860 | Duchêne | 24 |
| FR France | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 885 | Duchêne | 112 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 78 | 1 in 108K | 78 | Duchene | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Duchene | 44 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 2 | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | — |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #985 | — | — | — | Duchene | 1 |
1,673 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)- Henri Duchêneb. 1841FRFrench garden designer (1841–1902)
- Denis Auguste Duchêneb. 1862FRFrench general (1862–1950)
- Achille Duchêneb. 1866FRFrench garden designer (1866–1947)
- Ferdinand Duchêneb. 1868FRFrench writer and magistrate
- Gabrielle Duchêneb. 1870FRPeace and feminist activist from France (1870–1954)
- Gilbert-Antoine Duchêneb. 1919FRCatholic bishop (1919-2009)
- Roger Duchêneb. 1930FRFrench writer (1930-2006)
- Kate Duchêneb. 1959GBBritish Actress (born 1959)
- Deborah Ducheneb. 1962CACanadian actress
- Hélène Duchêneb. 1963FRFrench diplomat
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 860 | #1,610 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 790 | #1,779 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 78 | #13,335 |
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 Duchêne mean, and where does it come from?
- voir Duchesne. Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- How do you pronounce Duchêne?
- A machine transcription gives /dyʃɛn/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Duchêne have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Duchêne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duchene.
- Where is Duchêne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Duchêne is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Duchêne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,673 people named Duchêne in 2010, about 1 in 199 thousand residents.
- How common is Duchêne compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Duchêne is the 985th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Duchêne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/duch%C3%AAneThe 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, “Duchêne” — the 985th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.