Francoeur
surname · Latin script
Meaning: soit d’un toponyme, soit de franc coeur, surnom de soldat (Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Francoeur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,445 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- USUnited States1 in 230K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 617K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
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
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 230K (inferred from the name graph)
1,445 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)soit d’un toponyme, soit de franc coeur, surnom de soldat
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Francoeur is found
(measured from records)Francoeur 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 | 1,445 | 1 in 230K | 1.5K | Francoeur | 118 |
| BE Belgium | 19 | 1 in 617K | 19 | Francoeur | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Francoeur | 135 |
| FR France | — | — | 10 | Francoeur | 92 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | — | — | Francoeur | 6 |
1,445 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Joseph-Napoléon Francoeurb. 1880CACanadian politician (1880–1965)
- Lucien Francoeurb. 1948CACanadian poet (1948–2024)
- Jeff Francoeurb. 1984USAmerican baseball player
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Francoeur mean?
- Recorded meaning: soit d’un toponyme, soit de franc coeur, surnom de soldat
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Francoeur?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Francoeur, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled francoeur. After it come Belgium and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Francoeur most common?
- Francoeur is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 230 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Francoeur?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,445 people named Francoeur in 2010, about 1 in 230 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/francoeurThe 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, “Francoeur” — ranked 18285th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.