Gavroche

org · Latin script

Meaning: a young and resourceful, though usually poor, Parisian

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gavroche is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
43 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a young and resourceful, though usually poor, Parisian

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gavroche counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Gavroche is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France——Gavroche43
CA Canada—1——
CL Chile—1——
NL Netherlands—listed——

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: Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gavroche is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Gàvroche

15 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gavroche is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Le personnage de Gavroche Thénardier, héros des Misérables de Victor Hugo, est resté dans le langage populaire pour désigner un gamin parisien, aussi courageux que spirituel. Dans les années 50, le mot désigna aussi un foulard minuscule qu’on nouait autour du cou. Voir Poulbot .

    as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

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)

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 4 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Gavroche mean, and where does it come from?
a young and resourceful, though usually poor, Parisian Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Gavroche have the most bearers?
Gavroche is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled gavroche.

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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, “Gavroche”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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