The Bourget surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,297 people carried this name — #20,468 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 227,300 people counted. That is up 2% from 1,275 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Bourget surname
A habitational surname, Bourget.
Capitalization of bourget
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bourget» (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 1,705 people named Bourget.
11 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 75 départements, most often Maine-et-Loire.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
31 people named Bourget live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 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
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bourget.
- Bourg 2,745 · U.S. census
- Bourgault 781 · U.S. census
- Bourge 120 · U.S. census
- Bourgeau 162 · U.S. census
- Bourgeault 184 · U.S. census
- Bourgeois 13,325 · U.S. census
- Bourgoin 1,291 · U.S. census
- Bourgois 114 · U.S. census
- Bourgon 104 · U.S. census
- Bourgue 147 · U.S. census
- Bourguignon 317 · U.S. census
- Bourland 2,380 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Bourget is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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