Thibodeau
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Thibodeau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Thibaudeau, from the personal name Thibault.
- USUnited States1 in 42K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Thibodeau itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
7,904 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Variant of Thibaudeau, from the personal name Thibault.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Thibodeau 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 | 7,904 | 1 in 42K | 7.9K | Thibodeau | 10 |
| ES Spain | 9as Thibaudeau | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 4as Thibaudeau | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
7,904 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- François Thibodeaub. 1939CACanadian Catholic bishop (1939–2023)
- Michèle Thibodeau-DeGuireb. 1941CACanadian engineer
- Tom Thibodeaub. 1958USAmerican basketball coach
- Serge Patrice Thibodeaub. 1959CACanadian poet
- Lysanne Thibodeaub. 1959CACanadian director (1959–2018)
- Martin Thibodeaub. 1965CACanadian philosopher
- Michael Thibodeaub. 1966USMember of Maine State Senate
- Theresa Thibodeaub. 1975USAmerican politician from Nebraska
- Sean ThibodeauUSAmerican film actor
- David A. ThibodeauCAproduction assistant
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.9K | #4,487 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.7K | #4,235 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.3K | #4,702 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #108,659 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #68,053 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Thibodeau mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Thibaudeau, from the personal name Thibault. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Thibodeau have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Thibodeau, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thibodeau.
- Where is Thibodeau most common?
- Thibodeau is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 42 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Thibodeau?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,904 people named Thibodeau in 2010, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thibodeauThe 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, “Thibodeau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.