Rochefort
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Rochefort (a commune of Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; official name: Rochefort-sur-Mer)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rochefort is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- BEBelgium
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 209 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Rochefort (a commune of Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; official name: Rochefort-sur-Mer)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rochefort counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 179 | Rochefort | 209 |
| US United States | — | 888 | Rochefort | 132 |
| BE Belgium | — | 59 | Rochefort | 10 |
| BR Brazil | — | 62 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 47 | — | 26 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Rochefort 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 French, de Rochefort, nom de plusieurs localités à travers la France.
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)
- Charlotte Louise de Rohanb. 1767FRnot in their usual nameMember of the House of Rohan (1767-1841)
- Jean-Pierre-Jacques-Auguste de Labouïsse-Rochefortb. 1778FRFrench poet (1778-1852)
- Henri Rochefortb. 1831FRFrench writer and politician (1831–1913)
- Charles de Rochefortb. 1887FRFrench actor (1887–1952)
- Joseph Rochefortb. 1900USAmerican cryptographer (1900–1976)
- Christiane Rochefortb. 1917FRFrench writer (1917–1998)
- Jean Rochefortb. 1930FRFrench actor (1930–2017)
- Robert Rochefortb. 1955FRFrench economist and politician
- Nathalie Rochefortb. 1970CACanadian politician
- Pierre Rochefortb. 1981FRFrench actor and singer
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 888 | #27,228 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 875 | #28,895 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 871 | #26,361 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 244 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 218 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 200 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 190 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 179 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 177 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 169 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 157 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 136 | — |
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 Rochefort mean, and where does it come from?
- Rochefort (a commune of Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; official name: Rochefort-sur-Mer) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rochefort have the most bearers?
- Rochefort is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled rochefort.
What do you want to know about Rochefort?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rochefortThe 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, “Rochefort”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.