The Boutin surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,749 people carried this name — #8,749 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 78,700 people counted. That is up 7% from 3,513 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 6,430 people named Boutin.
72 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 98 départements, most often Loire-Atlantique.
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
44 people named Boutin live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 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.
In print
Boutin in American newspapers,
1845–1927.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 9,420 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Boutin,
with a public archive behind them.
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Léon Boutin 1826–1895 · physician -
Jean Boutin d. 1589 · politician
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Christian Boutin d. 2026 · physicist
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Fernand Boutin d. 1980 · dean
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Charles Robert Boutin 1722–1810 · jurist
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Charles Fantin de Boutin 1760– · explorer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Boutin.
- Bousson 192 · U.S. census
- Bout 136 · U.S. census
- Bouteiller 205 · U.S. census
- Boutet 194 · U.S. census
- Bouthillier 426 · U.S. census
- Boutillier 133 · U.S. census
- Bouton 2,459 · U.S. census
- Boutot 473 · U.S. census
- Boutros 916 · U.S. census
- Bouts 149 · U.S. census
- Boutte 3,241 · U.S. census
- Bouvet 188 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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