Duchesne
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from Old French
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dyʃɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Duchesne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 8K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 253K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 280K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Duchesne 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
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
1,460 people, 2008
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Душеин in RU Russia, TJ Tajikistan.
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)
A surname from Old French.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Duchesne is read(measured from records)
Duchesne is one spelling over 2 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.
- French66%
De du Chesne, dérivé de Le Chesne, nom de plusieurs localités du nord de la France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English28%
A surname from Old French.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
river, county, UT
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Duchesne 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 | 1,460 | 1 in 8K | 1.5K | — | — |
| US United States | 1,039 | 1 in 320K | 1.1K | Duchesne | 4 |
| TJ Tajikistan | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Душеин | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Душеин | 66 |
| CH Switzerland | 30 | 1 in 280K | 30 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 22 | 1 in 253K | 22 | — | — |
1,460 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Duchesneb. 1544FRFrench physician (ca 1544-1609)
- Antoine Nicolas Duchesneb. 1747FRFrench botanist (1747-1827)
- Rose Philippine Duchesneb. 1769FRFrench Catholic Religious Sister and missionary in the United States
- Jacques Duchesneb. 1837FRFrench general (1837–1918)
- Louis Duchesneb. 1843FRFrench priest and Church historian (1843–1922)
- Ernest Duchesneb. 1874FRFrench physician (1874–1912)
- Roger Duchesneb. 1906FRFrench actor (1906–1996)
- Annie Ernauxb. 1940FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer (born 1940)
- Pierre Duchesneb. 1940CALieutenant Governor of Quebec
- Christiane Duchesneb. 1949CAFrench-Canadian writer known best for children's books
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.5K | #796 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.3K | #894 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,186 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,186 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,617 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 30 | #27,377 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 22 | #41,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Duchesne mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Old French. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Duchesne?
- A machine transcription gives /dyʃɛn/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Duchesne have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Duchesne, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Duchesne most common?
- Duchesne is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Duchesne?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,460 people named Duchesne in 2008, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Duchesne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/duchesneThe 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, “Duchesne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.