Douche
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: shower
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Douche is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 113K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 202K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 668K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)
≈600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
shower
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Douche is read(measured from records)
Douche 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%
shower
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.3%
A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for irrigation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Douche 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 113K | 94 | Douche | 146 |
| MA Morocco | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 202K | — | Douche | 11 |
| US United States | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Douche | 35 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Douche | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | — | Douche | 23 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 668K | — | Douche | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 2 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)
Douche is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, shower: an instance of using of bathing device in order to bathe oneself
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 109 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 102 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 100 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 97 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 94 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 68 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 36 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Douche mean, and where does it come from?
- shower Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Douche?
- In the etymology graph, Doos is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Douche have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 601 people named Douche in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled douche.
- How common is the name Douche?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 4 people named Douche in 2024, about 1 in 2.1 million 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, “Douche”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.