The Dufresne surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,611 people carried this name — #7,236 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 64,100 people counted. That is up 4% from 4,419 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Dufresne surname
From frêne (“ash tree”), written fresne in Old French.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Dufresne» (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 2,359 people named Dufresne.
28 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 81 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.
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
148 people named Dufresne 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 Dufresne,
with a public archive behind them.
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Charles Dufresne 1611–1684 · actor -
Catherine-Marie-Jeanne Quinault-Dufresne 1705–1767 · actor -
Alexandre Henry Dufresne 1820–1903 · sculptor -
Jean Dufresne 1829–1893 · writer -
Émile Fauconneau Dufresne 1835–1913 · jurist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 102 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Dufresne.
- Dufort 650 · U.S. census
- Dufour 4,647 · U.S. census
- Dufraine 112 · U.S. census
- Dufrane 535 · U.S. census
- Dufrene 3,115 · U.S. census
- Dufrenne 101 · U.S. census
- Dugal 632 · U.S. census
- Dugard 302 · U.S. census
- Dugas 6,871 · U.S. census
- Dugat 266 · U.S. census
- Dugay 378 · U.S. census
- Dugre 198 · U.S. census
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