Rouleau
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Rouleau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 132K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 467K
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rouleau 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
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)
2,520 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 little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rouleau is read(measured from records)
Rouleau 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.
- English59%
A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French33%
roll, roller
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
dérivé de Roul, du nom germanique Hrodwulf (hrod « gloire », wulf « loup »).
as a nameDictionnaire 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rouleau 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 | 2,520 | 1 in 132K | 2.5K | Rouleau | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | 57as Rulo | 1 in 303K | 57 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 34as Rulo | 1 in 6.2M | 34 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 29as Rulo | 1 in 1.7M | 29 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 18 | 1 in 467K | 18 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | — | 1 |
2,520 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleaub. 1866CACatholic cardinal (1866-1931)
- Raymond Rouleaub. 1904BEactor, film director (1904-1981)
- Cécile Rouleaub. 1905CACanadian trade unionist
- Ernest Rouleaub. 1916CACanadian botanist (1916-1991)
- Éric Rouleaub. 1926FRFrench journalist and diplomat (1926–2015)
- Joseph Rouleaub. 1929CACanadian opera singer (1929–2019)
- Philippe Rouleaub. 1940FRFrench actor (1940–2009)
- Guy Rouleaub. 1965CACanadian ice hockey player
- Blaze Ya Dead Homieb. 1976USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
- Alexandre Rouleaub. 1983FRFrance ice hockey 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,339 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #12,070 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,501 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 18 | #39,486 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 17 | #52,382 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #99,338 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Rouleau mean, and where does it come from?
- A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Rouleau?
- In the etymology graph, Roulette is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Rouleau have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Rouleau, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rouleau.
- Where is Rouleau most common?
- Rouleau is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 132 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rouleau?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,520 people named Rouleau in 2010, about 1 in 132 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/rouleauThe 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, “Rouleau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.