Mouton

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A 14th-century French gold coin, weighing about 70 grains

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈmutɔn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mouton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 51K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 20M

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.

United States (measured from records)

6,535 people, 2010

Sources
274 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

nickname from Old French mouton ‘sheep’, doubtless used to denote a docile and unintelligent person, perhaps someone easily led.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

How Mouton is read(measured from records)

Mouton 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.

  • English51%

    A 14th-century French gold coin, weighing about 70 grains.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French38%

    nickname from Old French mouton ‘sheep’, doubtless used to denote a docile and unintelligent person, perhaps someone easily led.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    sheep (animal)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    soit de (Le) Mouton, nom de plusieurs localités en France, soit de mouton, surnom d’un individu doux ou frisé.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Mouton 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.

Where Mouton is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—6,5351 in 51K6.5KMouton235
BE Belgium#6792,0071 in 5.8K2KMouton75
NL Netherlands—1691 in 102K169Mouton19
ES Spain—1061 in 472K106Mouton24
CH Switzerland—441 in 191K44—20
FI Finland—331 in 169K33—2
FR France#473≈3 est.≈1 in 20M1.1KMouton274

6,535 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mouton is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, South Africa, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Moutón

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Moutón

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, South Africa, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Moton, Мутон, Моутон, Мотон, Muton

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mouton 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 crs, sheep

    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)

1400160018002000Jean Mouton, b. 1459Gabriel Mouton, b. 1619Georges Mouton, b. 1770Régis Barthélemy Mouton-Duvernet, b. 1770Alexandre Mouton, b. 1804Eugène Mouton, b. 1823Henri Mouton, b. 1869Jane Mouton, b. 1930Michèle Mouton, b. 1951Benjamin Mouton, b. 1965

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)

FormalDear Mouton,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Mouton
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020106.5K#5,329
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020206.4K#5,254
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020006K#5,335
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082K#508
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—2K#504
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19611.5K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19511.4K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19411.3K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19711.2K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19811.1K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19911.1K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19211.1K—

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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

Where does the name Mouton come from?
nickname from Old French mouton ‘sheep’, doubtless used to denote a docile and unintelligent person, perhaps someone easily led. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Mouton?
A machine transcription gives /ˈmutɔn/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Mouton mean?
In English, A 14th-century French gold coin, weighing about 70 grains.
In which country does Mouton have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Mouton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mouton.
Where is Mouton most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mouton is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 5.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mouton?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,535 people named Mouton in 2010, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
How common is Mouton compared with other names?
In France, Mouton is the 473rd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Mouton” — the 473rd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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