Bouchard
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bouchard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Du nom germanique Burghard, de burg « protection » et hard « dur, fort ».
- USUnited States1 in 25K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 63K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 88K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 299 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
13,154 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Du nom germanique Burghard, de burg « protection » et hard « dur, fort ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Bouchard is read(measured from records)
Bouchard 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.
- English59%
v. BURCHARD
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- French31%
Du nom germanique Burghard, de burg « protection » et hard « dur, fort ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Bouchard 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 13,154 | 1 in 25K | 13K | Bouchard | 287 |
| AR Argentina | — | 271 | 1 in 168K | 271 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 124 | 1 in 95K | 124 | Bouchard | 32 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 95 | 1 in 88K | 95 | Bouchard | 16 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 54 | 1 in 63K | 54 | — | — |
| CA Canada | #210 | — | — | — | Bouchard | 220 |
13,154 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Pierre-François Bouchardb. 1771FRFrench Army officer (1771-1822)
- Charles-Joseph Bouchardb. 1837FRFrench pathologist (1837–1915)
- Polaireb. 1874FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1874–1939)
- Emile Bouchardb. 1919CACanadian ice hockey player (1919–2012)
- Lucien Bouchardb. 1938CABloc Québécois Canadian politician
- Raymond Bouchardb. 1945CABouchard, Raymond, 1945-
- Michel Marc Bouchardb. 1958CAplaywright working in Quebec
- Loren Bouchardb. 1969USAmerican director and musician
- Marie-Maib. 1984CAnot in their usual nameQuébécois singer-songwriter
- Eugenie Bouchardb. 1994CACanadian tennis 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,739 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,586 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,822 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 271 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 124 | #12,997 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 95 | #11,529 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 54 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Bouchard mean?
- Recorded meaning: Du nom germanique Burghard, de burg « protection » et hard « dur, fort ».
- In which country does Bouchard have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Bouchard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bouchard.
- Where is Bouchard most common?
- Bouchard is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bouchard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,154 people named Bouchard in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Bouchard compared with other names?
- In Canada, Bouchard is the 210th most common surname of 699,524 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Bouchard” — the 210th most common surname in Canada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.