Michaux
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant ofMichaud
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/miʃo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Michaux is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 14K
- LULuxembourg≈1 in 7.2K
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)
- Record sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variant ofMichaud.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Michaux 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 | #960 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 663 | Michaux | 251 |
| BE Belgium | #150 | 3,516 | 1 in 3.3K | 3.5K | Michaux | 100 |
| US United States | — | 761 | 1 in 437K | 777 | Michaux | 130 |
| AR Argentina | — | 162 | 1 in 281K | 162 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 477K | — | Michaux | 27 |
| LU Luxembourg | #302 | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Michaux | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 47 | 1 in 179K | 47 | Michaux | 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Michaux 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 Croatian, belgijsko-francuski pjesnik i slikar; stvarnom svijetu suprotstavljao svijet snova, mašte i halucinogenih droga ( Vjetrovi i prašine )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)- André Michauxb. 1746FRFrench botanist and explorer (1746-1802)
- François André Michauxb. 1770FRFrench botanist (1770-1855)
- Pierre Michauxb. 1813FRFrench blacksmith
- Ernest Michauxb. 1842FRFrench inventor (1842-1882)
- Alfred Michauxb. 1859FRFrench Esperantist (1859–1937)
- Alphonse Michauxb. 1860BEBelgian coin engraver (1860–1928)
- Julian Michauxb. 1868PLPolish fencer
- Lewis H Michauxb. 1895USAmerican activist
- Henri Michauxb. 1899BEFrench painter, poet and writer (1899–1984)
- Bernard Michauxb. 1983LUcinema producer
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3.5K | #220 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 3.1K | #249 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 867 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 828 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 794 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 777 | #31,863 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 761 | #30,630 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 716 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 715 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 663 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 650 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 623 | #34,399 |
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 Michaux mean, and where does it come from?
- variant ofMichaud. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Michaux?
- A machine transcription gives /miʃo/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Michaux have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Michaux in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled michaux.
- Where is Michaux most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Michaux is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Michaux?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 3,516 people named Michaux in 2008, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Michaux compared with other names?
- In France, Michaux is the 960th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Michaux?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/michauxThe 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, “Michaux” — the 960th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.