Marchais
surname · Latin script
Meaning: first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of marcher
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/maʁʃɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marchais is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of marcher
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marchais counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 424 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 10 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 6 | — |
| US United States | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)
Marchais is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nrm, first-person singular imperfect indicative of marchi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, second-person plural present indicative of marchar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jean Marchaisb. 1746FRFrench politician
- Pierre Antoine Marchaisb. 1763FRFrench painter (1763–1859)
- Auguste Marchaisb. 1872FRFrench athlete (1872–1952)
- René Marchaisb. 1877FRFrench singer (1877–1949)
- Maurice Marchaisb. 1878FRFrench politician (1878-1945)
- Georges Marchaisb. 1896FRFrench literary critic and Catholic priest
- Georges Marchaisb. 1920FRformer general secretary of the French Communist Party (1920-1997)
- Liliane Marchaisb. 1935FRFrench political activist (1935-2020)
- Albert Marchaisb. 1935FRFrench artist
- Dominique MarchaisFRFrench film director
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 632 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 601 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 514 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 492 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 490 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 474 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 455 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 424 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 388 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 325 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 285 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 10 | #70,862 |
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 Marchais mean, and where does it come from?
- first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of marcher Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Marchais?
- A machine transcription gives /maʁʃɛ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Marchais have the most bearers?
- Marchais is most frequently recorded in France.
What do you want to know about Marchais?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marchaisThe 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, “Marchais”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.