Mailhot
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pejorative nickname from maillet ‘mallet’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmaɪɫhət/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mailhot is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pejorative nickname from maillet ‘mallet’. A bearer of this name from the Languedoc region of France is documented in Bequet, Quebec, in 1671, with the secondary surname Laviolette.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mailhot 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 Breton, mailloche
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Laurent Mailhotb. 1931CAQuébécois writer and professor (1931–2021)
- Michèle Mailhotb. 1932CACanadian writer
- René Mailhotb. 1942CACanadian journalist
- José Mailhotb. 1943CAQuebec ethnolinguistic consultant (1943-2021)
- Claude Mailhotb. 1948CACanadian television presenter
- Jacques Mailhotb. 1949FRFrench chansonnier, journalist and actor
- Jacques Mailhotb. 1961CACanadian ice hockey player
- Régis Mailhotb. 1977FRFrench humorist and columnist
- Robert J Mailhotb. 1977CACanadian poet and writer
- Terese Marie Mailhotb. 1983CAFirst Nation Canadian writer, journalist, memoirist, teacher
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,906 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,352 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 20 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Mailhot come from?
- pejorative nickname from maillet ‘mallet’. A bearer of this name from the Languedoc region of France is documented in Bequet, Quebec, in 1671, with the secondary surname Laviolette. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mailhot?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmaɪɫhət/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Mailhot mean?
- Recorded meaning: pejorative nickname from maillet ‘mallet’.
- In which country does Mailhot have the most bearers?
- Mailhot is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mailhot”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.