Billet surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Billet surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 897 people carried this name — #25,775 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 303,000 people counted.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 3,101 people named Billet.

59 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 88 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 59
Pas-de-Calais 351
Vendée 285
Rhône 244
Paris 243
Nord 171
Jura 163
Ain 129
Haute-Saône 112

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

In Belgium’s population register

At least 112 people named Billet live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Flemish Brabant.

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

Where they live today

Flemish Brabant 53
Hainaut 16
West Flanders 15
Antwerp 12
Liège 6
East Flanders 5
Limburg 5

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

25 people named Billet live in Switzerland.

They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.

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

Where they live today

Geneva 5
St. Gallen 5
Bern 4
Fribourg 4
Vaud 4
Neuchâtel 3

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

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