Boulenger
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/bulɑ̃ʒe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boulenger is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Boulenger.
- FRFrance
- BEBelgium
- ESSpain
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from French Boulenger.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jean Boulengerb. 1550FRFrench mathematician and professor
- Jules-César Boulengerb. 1558FRFrench historian and Jesuit
- Hippolyte Boulengerb. 1837BEpainter (1837-1874)
- George Albert Boulengerb. 1858BEBelgian-British zoologist (1858–1937), member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino from 1900
- Marcel Jacques Boulengerb. 1873FRFrench fencer and writer (1873–1932)
- Jacques Boulengerb. 1879FRFrench journalist and historian (1879–1944)
- Charles L. Boulengerb. 1885GBBritish zoologist and parasitologist
- Edward George Boulengerb. 1888GBBritish herpetologist
- Thomas Boulengerb. 1984FRPh.D. Université Paris-Sud XI - Orsay 2012
- Benjamin Boulengerb. 1990FRFrench association football 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 285 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 281 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 257 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 255 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 239 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 208 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 195 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 171 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 143 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 105 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 85 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 51 | #25,815 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Boulenger mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Boulenger. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Boulenger?
- A machine transcription gives /bulɑ̃ʒe/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Boulenger have the most bearers?
- Boulenger is most frequently recorded in France.
What do you want to know about Boulenger?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boulengerThe 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
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Boulenger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.