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The Bettencourt surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 7,365 people carried this name — #4,797 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 40,000 people counted. That is up 7% from 6,888 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Bettencourt surname

A surname transferred from the place name; variant forms Bentancour, Bentancourt, Betancoor, Betancor, Betancur, Betancurt, Betancurth, Betencur, Bethancourt, Bitencourt, Bittencourt, Béthencourt, Betancourt, Bethancourt, Bitencourt, Bittencourt, DeBettencour.

Inherited from Old French Béthencourt, from the Germanic personal name Betto (variant of Berto) + cort (“court”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bettencourt» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 224 people named Bettencourt.

2 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 19 départements, most often Seine-Maritime.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 2
Seine-Maritime 123
Eure 26
Nord 25
Paris 11
Allier 7
Calvados 4
Hauts-de-Seine 4
Oise 3

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 25 people named Bettencourt live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 25

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Bettencourt in American newspapers,
1893–1959.

Newspaper page from Morning Appeal carrying the name Bettencourt
Morning Appeal 1893-07-19
Newspaper page from Fergus County Argus carrying the name Bettencourt
Fergus County Argus 1902-01-01
Newspaper page from Yerington Times carrying the name Bettencourt
Yerington Times 1917-06-30

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 4,112 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Bettencourt,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Francisco de Lemos Bettencourt
    Francisco de Lemos Bettencourt 1779–1840 · politician
  • António da Cunha Silveira de Bettencourt
    António da Cunha Silveira de Bettencourt 1782–1873 · politician
  • Matilde Isabel de Santana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Betencourt
    Matilde Isabel de Santana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Betencourt 1805–1888 · writer
  • Jacinto Augusto de Santana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Bettencourt
    Jacinto Augusto de Santana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Bettencourt 1824–1888 · politician
  • Maria Guilhermina Mesquita Pimentel
    Maria Guilhermina Mesquita Pimentel 1839–1907 · writer

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 78 lives in all are documented under this name.

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