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The Dumoulin surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 540 people carried this name — #40,494 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 555,600 people counted. That is up 4% from 518 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Dumoulin surname

A surname, mostly found in Quebec.

Habitational surname from du moulin (“of the mill”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Dumoulin» (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 4,787 people named Dumoulin.

118 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 95 départements, most often Nord.

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Where they were born

Born outside France 118
Nord 942
Pas-de-Calais 354
Paris 352
Rhône 309
Isère 238
Drôme 153
Loire 130
Loire-Atlantique 115

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 1,595 people named Dumoulin live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.

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Where they live today

Liège 483
Hainaut 365
West Flanders 262
Brussels-Capital 136
Flemish Brabant 95
Walloon Brabant 72
East Flanders 50
Limburg 49

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

489 people named Dumoulin live in Switzerland.

They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Valais.

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Where they live today

Valais 259
Vaud 77
Fribourg 48
Geneva 30
St. Gallen 20
Neuchâtel 14
Zurich 13
Bern 11

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 Dumoulin,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Pierre Du Moulin
    Pierre Du Moulin 1568–1658 · parson
  • David Dumoulin
    David Dumoulin 1700–1800 · ballet dancer
  • Pierre Du Moulin
    Pierre Du Moulin 1700–1658 · parson
  • François Aimé Louis Dumoulin
    François Aimé Louis Dumoulin 1753–1834 · painter
  • Évariste Dumoulin
    Évariste Dumoulin 1766–1833 · playwright
  • Charles Dumoulin 1500–1566 · writer

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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