Jouan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jouan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Most prevalent in Côtes-d'Armor.
- FRFrance≈1 in 9.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 129K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 336K
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
- 266 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Most prevalent in Côtes-d'Armor.
Sources 2
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jouan 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 | #571 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 986 | Jouan | 266 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | 5 | Jouan | 72 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 336K | — | Jouan | 8 |
| BE Belgium | — | 91 | 1 in 129K | 91 | Jouan | 19 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 675K | — | Jouan | 28 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 20 | 1 in 420K | 20 | Jouan | 12 |
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); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); 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)
- Henri Jouanb. 1821FRFrench sailor (1821-1907)
- Éva Jouanb. 1857FRFrench poet
- René Jouanb. 1894FRFrench ship's captain and translator (1894-1972)
- Yves Jouanb. 1951FRFrench poet
- Éric Jouanb. 1964FRFrench journalist (1964–2018)
- Hélène Jouanb. 1967FRFrench journalist
- Matthias Jouanb. 1984FRfootballer
- Romain Jouanb. 1985FRFrench tennis player
- Arnaud Jouanb. 1993MCMonégasque actor
- Vincent JouanFRFrench actor
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 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 986 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 972 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 721 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 681 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 450 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 91 | #16,750 |
Reference works 4
- 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
- What does the name Jouan mean, and where does it come from?
- Most prevalent in Côtes-d'Armor. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Jouan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Jouan in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jouan.
- How common is the name Jouan?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 91 people named Jouan in 2008, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
- How common is Jouan compared with other names?
- In France, Jouan is the 571st most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jouanThe 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, “Jouan” — the 571st most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.