Dufresne
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dufresne is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: de du Fresne, dérivé de Le Fresne, nom de plusieurs localités dans la partie septentrionale de la France.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
de du Fresne, dérivé de Le Fresne, nom de plusieurs localités dans la partie septentrionale de la France.
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)
Dufresne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4.6K | — |
| FR France | — | 594 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 148 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 54 | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Charles Dufresneb. 1611FRFrench actor
- Abel Dufresneb. 1788FRFrench painter (1788-1866)
- Joseph Dufresneb. 1805CACanadian politician (1805-1873)
- Jean Dufresneb. 1829DEGerman chess player and chess composer (1829–1893)
- Charles Dufresneb. 1876FRFrench painter (1876-1938)
- Guy Dufresneb. 1915CAplaywright working in Quebec
- Ultra Violetb. 1935USnot in their usual nameFrench-American artist and author (1935–2014)
- Diane Dufresneb. 1944CACanadian recording artist; singer (born 1944)
- Jean-Pierre Dufresneb. 1945FRFrench athletics competitor
- Mathieu DufresneCAactor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.6K | #7,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.5K | #7,107 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.4K | #6,994 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 730 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 674 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 648 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 641 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 614 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 594 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 513 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 482 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 372 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Dufresne mean?
- Recorded meaning: de du Fresne, dérivé de Le Fresne, nom de plusieurs localités dans la partie septentrionale de la France.
- In which country does Dufresne have the most bearers?
- Dufresne is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Dufresne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dufresneThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Dufresne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.