Bougie
loc · Latin script
Meaning: candle
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Bougie is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 156 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)candle
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bougie 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 | — | 30 | Bougie | 110 |
| US United States | — | 606 | — | 156 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 115 | — | 18 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 | — | 3 |
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 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Bougie is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, altération de Bougis, Bougy; noms de plusieurs localités du nord-ouest de la France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, La chandelle de cire s’appelle bougie parce que l’on tirait beaucoup de cire fine de la ville de Bougie (aujourd’hui Béjaïa) en Algérie. Au départ, d’ailleurs, on parlait de « chandelles de Bougie ».
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In English, A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, spark plug
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Jean Bougieb. 1886CACanadian ice hockey player
- Bettina Bougieb. 1939DEGerman actor, author and entrepreneur
- Louis-Pierre Bougieb. 1946CACanadian painter and engraver (1946-2021)
- Pierre Bougieb. 1946CACanadian novelist
- Jacques Bougieb. 1947CACanadian jurist
- Francis BougieCAchemical engineer, researcher and university professor
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 606 | #39,225 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 572 | #38,640 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 523 | #39,560 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 115 | #16,961 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 25 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Bougie mean, and where does it come from?
- candle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bougie have the most bearers?
- Bougie is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled bougie.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bougieThe 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, “Bougie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.