Coulomb
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Charles Augustin de, French
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kulɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Coulomb is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 9.2Kas Coulon(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 47Kas Kulon
- CHSwitzerland1 in 77Kas Coulon
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Coulomb itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,274 named Coulon, 2008
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, as Coulon
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Coulon in US United States.
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)
Charles Augustin de, French
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Coulomb 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 | 1,274as Coulon | 1 in 9.2K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 953as Coulon | 1 in 349K | 1.1K | Coulon | 4 |
| PL Poland | 811as Kulon | 1 in 47K | 407 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 231as Coulon | 1 in 197K | 231 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 109as Coulon | 1 in 77K | 109 | — | 1 |
1,274 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
Coulomb is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, physicist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Indonesian, coulomb: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electric charge; the amount of electric charge carried by a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second. Symbol: C
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electric charge; the amount of electric charge carried by a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second. Symbol: C
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, coulomb (unit of electrical charge)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, coulomb (unit of electric charge)
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)
- Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulombb. 1728FRFrench naval engineer
- Charles-Augustin de Coulombb. 1736FRFrench physicist (1736-1806)
- Marie d'Abbadie d'Arrastb. 1837FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer (1837-1913)
- Jean Coulombb. 1904FRFrench mathematician and geophysicist (1904–1999)
- Robert Coulombb. 1934FRFrench cyclist
- Pierre Coulombb. 1937FRresearcher
- Pierre Coulombb. 1939FRFrench politician
- Marlène Coulomb-Gullyb. 1958FRFrench researcher
- Jean-Jacques Coulombb. 1961FRFrench politician
- Ludivine Coulombb. 1992FRFrench 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)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #103,728 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Coulomb mean, and where does it come from?
- Charles Augustin de, French Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Coulomb?
- A machine transcription gives /kulɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Coulomb have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Coulon, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Coulomb most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Coulomb itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Belgium's: the national register counts about 1 in 9.2 thousand people named Coulon.
- How common is the name Coulomb?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,274 people named Coulon in 2008, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coulombThe 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, “Coulomb”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.