Vachon

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A surname from French, equivalent to English Coward or Cowherd

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Vachon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 114K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 978K
  • SESweden1 in 2M

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)

2,928 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 114K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VachonLatin(measured from records)
ВашонCyrillic(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 surname, Vachon, originating as an occupation, equivalent to English Cowherd or Coward

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

How Vachon is read(measured from records)

Vachon 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.

  • English63%

    A surname from French, equivalent to English Coward or Cowherd.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French29%

    a surname, Vachon, originating as an occupation, equivalent to English Cowherd or Coward

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    dérivé de Vacher.

    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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Vachon 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.

Where Vachon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,9281 in 114K2.9KVachon7
ES Spain71 in 7.1M7——
DK Denmark61 in 978K6——
SE Sweden51 in 2M5——
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3——
BE Belgium21 in 5.9M2——

2,928 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)

190019201940196019802000Louis-Albert Vachon, b. 1912John Vachon, b. 1914Maurice Vachon, b. 1929Paul Vachon, b. 1937Rogatien Vachon, b. 1945Roger Vachon, b. 1957Christine Vachon, b. 1962Luna Vachon, b. 1962Sonia Vachon, b. 1966Florian Vachon, b. 1985

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 18 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Vachon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.9K#10,886
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.9K#10,336
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.7K#11,119
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7#143,513
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6#53,778
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—5#54,309
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082#138,774
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • 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)
  • Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)

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 Vachon come from?
a surname, Vachon, originating as an occupation, equivalent to English Cowherd or Coward Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Vachon mean?
In English, A surname from French, equivalent to English Coward or Cowherd.
In which country does Vachon have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Vachon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vachon.
Where is Vachon most common?
Vachon is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 114 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Vachon?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,928 people named Vachon in 2010, about 1 in 114 thousand residents.

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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, “Vachon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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