Ouellette
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a French-Canadian surname
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɑuɫɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ouellette is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 24K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
- ESSpain1 in 4.2M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
13,984 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a French-Canadian surname
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ouellette 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 13,984 | 1 in 24K | 14K | Ouellette | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 12 | 1 in 4.2M | 12 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | Ouellette | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | #256 | — | — | — | Ouellette | 4 |
13,984 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Édouard Ouelletteb. 1860CACanadian politician (1860–1931)
- Eddie Ouelletteb. 1911CACanadian ice hockey player
- Fernand Ouelletteb. 1930CACanadian writer
- Madeleine Ouellette-Michalskab. 1930CACanadian writer and poet
- Gerald Ouelletteb. 1934CAsport shooter (1934–1975)
- Robert J. Ouelletteb. 1938USAmerican chemist
- Nichole Ouelletteb. 1940CA1940 -
- Guy Ouelletteb. 1951CACanadian politician
- Jennifer Ouelletteb. 1964USAmerican science writer
- Robert-Falcon Ouelletteb. 1976CACanadian politician
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)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,583 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,455 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,664 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #280,342 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #139,316 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #369,442 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #19,889 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ouellette mean, and where does it come from?
- a French-Canadian surname Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ouellette?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɑuɫɛt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ouellette have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Ouellette, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ouellette.
- Where is Ouellette most common?
- Ouellette is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ouellette?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,984 people named Ouellette in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Ouellette compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Ouellette is the 256th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ouelletteThe 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, “Ouellette” — the 256th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.