Fouquet
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 2. nickname for someone who in some way resembled a squirrel, OF fouquet (originally from the given name, but later understood as a dim
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fucɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fouquet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 45K
- UYUruguay1 in 178K
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)
- Sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
2. nickname for someone who in some way resembled a squirrel, OF fouquet (originally from the given name, but later understood as a dim. offou,fol mad; cf. Foll).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fouquet 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 | #385 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 7K | 1.4K | Fouquet | 271 |
| US United States | — | 325 | 1 in 1M | 329 | Fouquet | 124 |
| BE Belgium | — | 258 | 1 in 45K | 258 | Fouquet | 26 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 288K | — | Fouquet | 39 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 614K | — | Fouquet | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 36 | 1 in 233K | 36 | Fouquet | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 19 | 1 in 178K | 19 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Fouquet is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, someone who in some way resembled a squirrel, OF fouquet (originally from the given name, but later under¬ stood as a dim. of fou, fol mad; cf. Foll).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In French, dérivé du nom germanique Folco, de folc « peuple »
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, C’est le nom d’un petit puffin noir des îles Mascareignes. Il dérive du nom d’homme Fou(l)que. C’était aussi l’ancien nom vulgaire de l’écureuil, ce qui explique pourquoi Nicolas Fou(c)quet (1615-1680), surintendant général des finances sous Louis XIV, portait, par allusion au sens du mot, un écureuil dans ses armes.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In Croatian, francuski slikar, portretist i minijaturist, najvažniji predstavnik francuskog slikarstva 15. st.
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)
- Jean Fouquetb. 1420FRFrench painter (c. 1420–1481)
- Marie de Maupeoub. 1590FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer and philanthropist
- Nicolas Fouquetb. 1615FRFrench politician (1615-1680)
- Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isleb. 1684FRMarshal of France (1684-1761)
- Louis Charles Armand Fouquetb. 1693FRFrench general and diplomat
- Henri Fouquetb. 1727FRFrench doctor, officer, encyclopedist and teacher
- Pieter Fouquetb. 1729NLDutch art dealer; published Atlas of Amsterdam (1729–1800)
- Georges Fouquetb. 1862FRFrench jeweler (1862–1957)
- Louise Fouquetb. 1918FRFrench actress (1918-1999)
- Charley Fouquetb. 1950FRFrench actress
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)
Attested in 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 983 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 671 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 329 | #65,168 |
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
- Where does the name Fouquet come from?
- 2. nickname for someone who in some way resembled a squirrel, OF fouquet (originally from the given name, but later understood as a dim. offou,fol mad; cf. Foll). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Fouquet?
- A machine transcription gives /fucɛ/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Fouquet mean?
- Recorded meaning: 2. nickname for someone who in some way resembled a squirrel, OF fouquet (originally from the given name, but later understood as a dim.
- In which country does Fouquet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.7 thousand people named Fouquet in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fouquet.
- How common is the name Fouquet?
- In the United States, the national register counted 325 people named Fouquet in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Fouquet compared with other names?
- In France, Fouquet is the 385th 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, “Fouquet” — the 385th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.