Toussaint
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Toussaint is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Haiti it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Chosen by parents who wish to invoke the blessing and protection of ‘all the saints’ (tous les saints); often given to a boy born on the feast of All Saints.
- BEBelgium1 in 3.1K◐
- FRFrance1 in 44K
- USUnited States1 in 45K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈15K ●
- Sources
- 280 ●
- 1 in 147 ◐
across 18 countries
57K records
Official registry-verified
Dominica
Meaning & origin●
Chosen by parents who wish to invoke the blessing and protection of ‘all the saints’ (tous les saints); often given to a boy born on the feast of All Saints.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 7,441 | 14K rec. | 1 in 45K | 8.1K | Toussaint | 244 |
| BE Belgium | — | 3,770 | 3.4K rec. | 1 in 3.1K | 3.8K | Toussaint | 88 |
| FR France | #299 | 1,540 | 36K rec. | 1 in 44K | 4.2K | Toussaint | 280 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 764△ | 123 rec. | 1 in 23K | 764 | Toussaint | 31 |
| CA Canada | — | 700 | 677 rec. | — | 1 | Toussaint | 76 |
| DM Dominica | — | 506△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 147 | 506 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 475 | 434 rec. | — | listed | Toussaint | 50 |
| BR Brazil | — | 357 | — | 1 in 593K | 357 | — | — |
| HT Haiti | #4 | 216 | 150 rec. | — | listed | Toussaint | 27 |
| GD Grenada | — | 154 | — | 1 in 734 | 154 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 115 | 227 rec. | 1 in 435K | 115 | Toussaint | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 98△ | 28 rec. | 1 in 86K | 98 | — | 18 |
Roughly 7.4K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 45K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French80K50%
- English45K28%
- Dutch7.9K5%
- Spanish7.5K5%
- German6.2K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 79,929 | 50% |
| English | 44,519 | 28% |
| Dutch | 7,944 | 5% |
| Spanish | 7,517 | 5% |
| German | 6,183 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Toussaint is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, posed of the elements tous (pi.) all + saints saints. The name was given to someone who was born on All Saints’ Day (1 November), or chosen as an invocation of the pro¬ tection of all the saints of the calendar. Cf. Santoro.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In French, All Saints Day
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, De Toussaint, nom donné à un enfant né durant cette période de l’année ou le jour même.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
French: name chosen by parents who wish to invoke the blessing and protection of ‘all the saints’ (French tous (les) saints ) for their son. The name is also often given to a boy born on the feast of All Saints (cf. SANTOS ).
as a word
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1914 | 6 |
| 1928 | 6 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1949 | 10 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1963 | 6 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1969 | 16 |
| 1970 | 13 |
| 1971 | 9 |
| 1972 | 22 |
| 1973 | 17 |
| 1974 | 18 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 13 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 10 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 15 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 11 |
| 1984 | 9 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 12 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 13 |
| 2022 | 13 |
| 2023 | 17 |
| 2024 | 16 |
| 2025 | 20 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 59 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Allen Toussaintb. 1938USAmerican musician, songwriter and record producer (1938–2015)
- Olivier Toussaintb. 1943FRFrench composer, singer, producer
- Éric Toussaintb. 1954BEBelgian historian
- Jean-Philippe Toussaintb. 1957BEBelgian writer and filmmaker
- Anne-Dominique Toussaintb. 1959BEBelgian film producer
- Lorraine Toussaintb. 1960USTrinidadian actress
- Beth Toussaintb. 1962USAmerican actress
- Steve Toussaintb. 1965GBBritish actor
- Kid Toussaintb. 1980BEBelgian writer
- Lindon Victorb. 1993GDnot in their usual nameGrenadian male decathlete
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●
Attested in 58 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.1K | #4,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.4K | #4,759 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.7K | #5,598 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 4.2K | #3,076 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3.8K | #200 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 3.5K | #211 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.5K | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 764 | #2,351 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 544 | #19,105 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 506 | #15 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 357 | #22,858 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 221 | #2,739 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 317 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Toussaint?
- We estimate roughly 15 thousand people bear Toussaint (counting its spellings and scripts) across 18 countries in our records.
- In which country does Toussaint have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 7.4 thousand people bear Toussaint in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled toussaint.
- Where is Toussaint most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Toussaint is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 147 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Toussaint compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Toussaint is the 4th most common surname of 1,393 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Toussaint mean?
- Recorded meaning: Chosen by parents who wish to invoke the blessing and protection of ‘all the saints’ (tous les saints); often given to a boy born on the feast of All Saints.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Toussaint” — the 4th most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.