Mouton

• French:/mu.tɔ̃/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

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 word·kaikki.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 name·Dictionary of American Family Names

  sheep (animal)

  as a word·kaikki.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 name·Dictionnaire 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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.

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 word·kaikki.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.

• Gabriel Moutonb. 1619FRFrench abbot and scientist
• Georges Moutonb. 1770FRFrench politician and officer (1770-1838)
• Michèle Moutonb. 1951FRrally driver, most successful female driver in the World Rally Championship

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).

25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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?

In French /mu.tɔ̃/ (Wiktionary).

What does the name Mouton mean?

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

Which countries have the most people with the surname Mouton?

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. After it come Belgium, Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.

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.