Routier
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: road
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁutje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Routier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 510K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 525K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
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)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 510K (inferred from the name graph)
266 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A French brigand of the 14th century.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Routier is read(measured from records)
Routier 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.
- French84%
road
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English14%
A French brigand of the 14th century.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Routier 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 | 266 | 1 in 1.3M | 266 | Routier | 6 |
| BE Belgium | 23 | 1 in 510K | 23 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 10 | 1 in 5M | 10 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 8 | — | — |
266 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
- Jean Routierb. 1884FRFrench illustrator
- Simone Routierb. 1901CACanadian poet and writer (1901-1987)
- Marcelle Routierb. 1915born:1915-03-23|died:2001-08-19|; Routier, Marcelle, 1915-2001
- Airy Routierb. 1945FRFrench journalist (1945-2020)
- Paul Routierb. 1949GBpolitician (born 1949)
- Airy Routierb. 1953FRFrench actor
- Philippe Routierb. 1958FRFrench writer
- Eric Routierb. 1963FRFrench politician
- Darlie Routierb. 1970USAmerican prisoner
- Carolina Routierb. 1990ESSpanish triathlete
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 266 | #73,005 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 242 | #74,398 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 240 | #84,231 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 23 | #43,789 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 16 | #43,070 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 8 | #68,469 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Routier come from?
- A French brigand of the 14th century. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Routier?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁutje/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Routier mean?
- In French, road
- In which country does Routier have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 266 people named Routier, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled routier.
- Where is Routier most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Routier is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 510 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Routier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 266 people named Routier in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Routier?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/routierThe 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, “Routier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.