Jolicoeur
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for a cheerful person, from Old French joli ‘joyful’, ‘cheerful’ + cuer ‘heart’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʒɑɫɪkɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jolicoeur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Canada than in any other country. In Mauritius it is the 14th most common surname.
- CACanada≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 245K
- MUMauritius≈1 in 1.5K
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.
- Canada (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mauritius, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname for a cheerful person, from Old French joli ‘joyful’, ‘cheerful’ + cuer ‘heart’. This was a frequent secondary surname in French Canada, and was often Americanized as Hart.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jolicoeur 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Jolicoeur | 149 |
| US United States | — | 1,359 | 1 in 245K | 1.4K | Jolicoeur | 239 |
| MU Mauritius | #14 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Jolicoeur | 21 |
| HT Haiti | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | — | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Jolicoeur | 35 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Jolicoeur | 1 |
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; the ht-potomitan-names register. 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)
Jolicoeur 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, de joli coeur, un surnom de soldat.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Henri Jolicoeurb. 1905CACanadian politician
- Louis-Philippe Jolicoeurb. 1919CAlibrarian at Université Laval
- Paul Jolicoeurb. 1945CACanadian scientist
- Nicole Jolicoeurb. 1947CACanadian photographer (born 1947)
- Louis Jolicoeurb. 1957CAwriter and university professor
- Thierry Jolicœurb. 1960FRnot in their usual nameresearcher
- David Jude Jolicoeurb. 1968USAmerican rapper (1968–2023)
- Pénélope Jolicoeurb. 1981CACanadian actress
- Alexia Jolicoeur-MartineauCACanadian AI researcher
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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,694 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,796 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,831 |
| HT Haiti | Potomitan — Noms et prénoms haïtiens (Haitian name lexicon) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Jolicoeur come from?
- nickname for a cheerful person, from Old French joli ‘joyful’, ‘cheerful’ + cuer ‘heart’. This was a frequent secondary surname in French Canada, and was often Americanized as Hart. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jolicoeur?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʒɑɫɪkɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Jolicoeur mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname for a cheerful person, from Old French joli ‘joyful’, ‘cheerful’ + cuer ‘heart’.
- In which country does Jolicoeur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Jolicoeur in Canada, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jolicoeur.
- How common is the name Jolicoeur?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,359 people named Jolicoeur in 2010, about 1 in 245 thousand residents.
- How common is Jolicoeur compared with other names?
- In Mauritius, Jolicoeur is the 14th most common surname of 1,496 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jolicoeurThe 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, “Jolicoeur” — the 14th most common surname in Mauritius. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.