The Bourgoin surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,291 people carried this name — #20,541 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 227,300 people counted. That is up 7% from 1,203 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 3,879 people named Bourgoin.
41 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 86 départements, most often Paris.
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
52 people named Bourgoin live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
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.
Who carried it
People named Bourgoin,
with a public archive behind them.
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Marie-Thérèse-Étiennette Bourgoin 1781–1833 · stage actor -
Auguste Bourgoin d. 1933 · entomologist
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François Bourgoin 1505– · pastor
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Nicolas Bourgoin 1568–1625 · Catholic priest
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Veuve de Michel Bobin 1650–1690 · book printer
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Alexandre Bourgoin 1776–1819 · calligrapher
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bourgoin.
- 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
- Bourget 1,297 · 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
- Bourlier 280 · U.S. census
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