Wallon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Wallonia; ethnic/origin name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wallon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 64K
- SESweden≈1 in 1.3M
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
182 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Wallonia; ethnic/origin name
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wallon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | — | 182 | 1 in 64K | 182 | Wallon | 11 |
| US United States | — | 160 | 1 in 2.1M | 178 | Wallon | 96 |
| PL Poland | — | 28 | 1 in 1.4M | 15 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Wallon | 17 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | — | Wallon | 47 |
| CF Central African Republic | #377 | — | — | — | Wallon | 1 |
182 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
Wallon 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 German, Belgian people
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Henri Alexandre Wallonb. 1812FRFrench politician (1812-1904)
- Jean Wallonb. 1821FRFrench writer (1821-1882)
- Paul Édouard Wallonb. 1821FRFrench lawyer (1821–1895)
- Paul Wallonb. 1845FRFrench architect
- Ernest Wallonb. 1851FRFrench jurist (1851-1921), first president of Stade toulousain
- Étienne Wallonb. 1855FRFrench physicist
- Henri Wallonb. 1879FRFrench psychologist, philosopher, pedagogist, and politician (1879–1962)
- Christian-Marie Wallon-Leducqb. 1945FRFrench political scientist
- Alfred Wallonb. 1957DEGerman writer
- Robert Wallonb. 1975PLPolish association football player born 1975
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 14 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 182 | #9,245 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 178 | #95,091 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 160 | #110,286 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 157 | #117,309 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #108,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #118,739 |
| US United States | wru 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Wallon mean, and where does it come from?
- from Wallonia; ethnic/origin name Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Wallon have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 182 people named Wallon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wallon.
- Where is Wallon most common?
- Wallon is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 64 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wallon?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 182 people named Wallon in 2008, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Wallon compared with other names?
- In the Central African Republic, Wallon is the 377th most common surname of 1,109 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wallonThe 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, “Wallon” — the 377th most common surname in Central African Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.