Escoffier

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: to kill

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɛskɔfje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Escoffier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 350K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 2.4M
  • ESSpain1 in 6.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Switzerland (measured from records)

24 people, 2024

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 350K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

to kill

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Escoffier is read(measured from records)

Escoffier 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.

  • French89%

    to kill

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English7.3%

    Auguste, French chef

    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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Escoffier 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.

Where Escoffier is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland241 in 350K24Escoffier1
AR Argentina191 in 2.4M19Escoffier19
ES Spain81 in 6.3M8Escoffier4
BE Belgium11 in 12M1——
BR Brazil———Escoffier16
CL Chile———Escoffier16

24 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Escoffier is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Escoffiér

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Auguste Escoffier, b. 1846Paul Escoffier, b. 1875Léon Escoffier, b. 1877André Escoffier, b. 1886Marcel Escoffier, b. 1910Anne-Marie Escoffier, b. 1942Bob Escoffier, b. 1949Jean-Yves Escoffier, b. 1950Éric Escoffier, b. 1960Antoine Escoffier, b. 1992

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Escoffier, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Escoffier
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202424#32,062
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—19—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—8#134,434
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#167,696

Reference works 3

  • 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 Escoffier mean, and where does it come from?
to kill Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Escoffier?
A machine transcription gives /ɛskɔfje/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Escoffier have the most bearers?
In Switzerland, the national register counted about 24 people named Escoffier, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled escoffier.
Where is Escoffier most common?
Escoffier is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 350 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Escoffier?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 24 people named Escoffier in 2024, about 1 in 350 thousand residents.

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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, “Escoffier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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