Maupin
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: ‘Person who lives by a bad pine tree’, from French ‘bad pine’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Maupin is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- FRFrance
- CACanada
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)
‘Person who lives by a bad pine tree’, from French ‘bad pine’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Maupin is read(measured from records)
Maupin is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English78%
‘Person who lives by a bad pine tree’, from French ‘bad pine’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- French12%
topographic name from Old French mal, mau ‘bad’ + pin ‘pine (tree)’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Harry Maupinb. 1872USMajor League Baseball player
- Armistead Jones Maupinb. 1914USAmerican lawyer (1914-2005)
- Bennie Maupinb. 1940USAmerican musician
- Armistead Maupinb. 1944USAmerican writer
- Valérie Maupinb. 1962FRprofessor at University of Oslo
- Audry Maupinb. 1972FRFrench spree killer (1972-1994)
- Simon MaupinFRFrench architect
- David MaupinUSAmerican curator
- Caleb MaupinUSAmerican journalist
- Valentin MaupinFRFrench voice 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 12 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.1K | #5,285 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.1K | #5,730 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.7K | #5,853 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 238 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 228 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 192 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 175 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 173 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 170 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 165 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 149 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 136 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Maupin mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person who lives by a bad pine tree’, from French ‘bad pine’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Maupin have the most bearers?
- Maupin 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.
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, “Maupin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.