Bouquet
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: bouquet, bunch
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/bukɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bouquet is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- ARArgentina
- USUnited States
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)from a medieval nickname for a man thought to resemble a goat in appearance or lecherousness; from French, literally ‘little goat’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bouquet is read
(measured from records)Bouquet is one spelling over 3 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.
- French80%
bouquet, bunch
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
from a medieval nickname for a man thought to resemble a goat in appearance or lecherousness; from French, literally ‘little goat’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
A bunch of cut flowers.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bouquet in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Bouquet is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, bouquet (a bunch of flowers, or rarely an assortment of other ornaments)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, alternative form of buquê
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)- Martin Bouquetb. 1685FRFrench historian (1685-1754)
- Henry Bouquetb. 1719CHBritish Army officer
- Jean-Claude Bouquetb. 1819FRFrench mathematician (1819–1885)
- Louis Bouquetb. 1885FRFrench artist (1885-1952)
- Michel Bouquetb. 1925FRFrench actor (1925–2022)
- Jean-Pierre Bouquetb. 1951FRFrench politician
- Carole Bouquetb. 1957FRFrench actress (b. 1957)
- Stéphane Bouquetb. 1967FRFrench screenwriter (1967–2025)
- Chloé Valentinib. 1995FRnot in their usual nameFrench handball player
- Dick Bouquetscreenwriter
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 921 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 812 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 610 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 599 | #39,592 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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)
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 Bouquet come from?
- from a medieval nickname for a man thought to resemble a goat in appearance or lecherousness; from French, literally ‘little goat’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Bouquet?
- A machine transcription gives /bukɛ/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Bouquet mean?
- In French, bouquet, bunch
- In which country does Bouquet have the most bearers?
- Bouquet is most frequently recorded in France.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bouquetThe 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, “Bouquet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.