Mouchet
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/muʃɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mouchet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: mouchoir, châle.
- BEBelgium1 in 65K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 131K
- ARArgentina1 in 402K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
179 people, 2008
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)mouchoir, châle
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mouchet 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 179 | 1 in 65K | 179 | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 113 | 1 in 402K | 113 | Mouchet | 20 |
| US United States | 107 | 1 in 3.1M | 107 | Mouchet | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 64 | 1 in 131K | 64 | Mouchet | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 45 | 1 in 4.7M | 45 | Mouchet | 16 |
| ES Spain | 25 | 1 in 2M | 25 | Mouchet | 9 |
179 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)Mouchet 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, mouchoir, châle
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)- François-Nicolas Mouchetb. 1750FRFrench painter (1750–1814)
- Paul Mouchetb. 1882FRFrench official (1882–1963)
- Pierre Mouchetb. 1916FRFrench politician (1916-1980)
- Charles Mouchetb. 1920CH(1920-1979)
- Denis Mouchetb. 1956FRFrench politician
- Louis Mouchetb. 1957CHSwiss filmmaker
- Catherine Mouchetb. 1959FRFrench actress
- Sandrine Mouchetb. 1969FRFrench diplomat
- Charlotte Mouchetb. 1996FRFrench athlete
- Anne Mouchetresearcher
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 179 | #9,392 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 113 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 107 | #152,628 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 104 | #153,590 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 64 | #15,489 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 45 | #112,812 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 25 | #72,099 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 25 | #71,513 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Mouchet mean, and where does it come from?
- mouchoir, châle Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- How do you pronounce Mouchet?
- A machine transcription gives /muʃɛ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Mouchet have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 179 people named Mouchet, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mouchet most common?
- Mouchet is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 65 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mouchet?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 179 people named Mouchet in 2008, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mouchet?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mouchetThe 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, “Mouchet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.