Proulx
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a medieval French nickname for a prudent or brave person, from proulx, a variant of preux 'wise, brave'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɹu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Proulx is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 65K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
- BEBelgium1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Proulx itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
5,096 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Пру in RU Russia.
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)
from a medieval French nickname for a prudent or brave person, from proulx, a variant of preux 'wise, brave'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Proulx 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 | 5,096 | 1 in 65K | 5.1K | Proulx | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 8 | 1 in 4.8M | 6 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 6 | 1 in 2M | 6 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 26M | — | Пру | 14 |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | — | — |
5,096 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Proulx 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 English, W. Annie, US author
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Annie Proulxb. 1935USAmerican novelist, short story and non-fiction author (b. 1935)
- Danielle Proulxb. 1952CAQuebec actress
- Monique Proulxb. 1952CACanadian writer
- Catherine Proulx-Lemayb. 1975CACanadian actress
- Sébastien Proulxb. 1975CACanadian politician
- Matthieu Proulxb. 1981CACanadian football player
- Émile Proulx-Cloutierb. 1983CACanadian actor, film director, screenwriter and singer
- Simon Proulx-Sénécalb. 1991CACanadian ice dancer
- Brooklynn Proulxb. 1999CACanadian child actress
- Lysianne Proulxb. 1999CACanadian soccer player
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.1K | #6,645 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5K | #6,566 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.8K | #6,538 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #91,181 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #184,379 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #162,796 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3 | #23,111 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #375,886 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Proulx mean, and where does it come from?
- from a medieval French nickname for a prudent or brave person, from proulx, a variant of preux 'wise, brave' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Proulx?
- A machine transcription gives /pɹu/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Proulx have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Proulx, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled proulx.
- Where is Proulx most common?
- Proulx is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 65 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Proulx?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,096 people named Proulx in 2010, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/proulxThe 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, “Proulx”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.