The Drouet surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 179 people carried this name — #100,791 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,666,700 people counted. That is up 36% from 132 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 5,305 people named Drouet.
28 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 83 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
22 people named Drouet live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 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 Drouet,
with a public archive behind them.
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Gervais Drouet 1609–1673 · sculptor -
Gervais Drouet 1610–1673 · sculptor
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Jean-Baptiste Drouet 1763–1824 · politician -
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon 1765–1844 · military personnel -
Geoffroy Drouet d. 1573 · politician
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Giovanni Drouet d. 1594
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Drouet.
- Drolet 1,041 · U.S. census
- Dron 188 · U.S. census
- Drone 865 · U.S. census
- Dronet 474 · U.S. census
- Dross 406 · U.S. census
- Drost 2,778 · U.S. census
- Drouhard 308 · U.S. census
- Drouillard 863 · U.S. census
- Drouin 2,419 · U.S. census
- Droz 893 · U.S. census
- Drozd 1,852 · U.S. census
- Drozdz 224 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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