Riquier
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variante liée à Richard; germanique ric- + hard- « puissant, fort »
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Riquier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 345K
- CACanada≈1 in 780K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variante liée à Richard; germanique ric- + hard- « puissant, fort ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Where in the world(measured from records)
Riquier 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 228 | Riquier | 213 |
| US United States | 154 | 1 in 2.2M | 154 | Riquier | 59 |
| CA Canada | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 780K | — | Riquier | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Riquier | 6 |
| ES Spain | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Riquier | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 34 | 1 in 345K | 34 | Riquier | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 3 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Riquier is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du germanique *ric* « puissant » + *hari* « armée »; saint Riquier.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Même origine que Richer.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Guiraut Riquierb. 1230FROccitan poet and composer
- Jacques François Riquierb. 1737FRFrench politician (1737-1824)
- Charles Riquierb. 1853FRFrench mathematician
- Giuseppe Carlo Riquierb. 1886ITItalian neuropsychiatrist (1886-1962)
- Georges Riquierb. 1918FRFrench actor (1918-1998)
- Ann Riquierb. 1947FRFrench journalist
- Camille Riquierb. 1974FRFrench philosopher
- Sylvain RiquierFRFrench archivist and diplomat
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 312 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 308 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 301 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 300 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 284 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 233 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 228 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 198 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 198 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 181 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 154 | #113,791 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 138 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Riquier mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante liée à Richard; germanique ric- + hard- « puissant, fort ».
- In which country does Riquier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Riquier in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled riquier.
- How common is the name Riquier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 154 people named Riquier in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/riquierThe 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, “Riquier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.