Jolivet surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Jolivet surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 390 people carried this name — #53,072 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 769,200 people counted. That is up 13% from 345 in 2000.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 4,921 people named Jolivet.

39 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 85 départements, most often Finistère.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 39
Finistère 689
Paris 424
Cher 372
Ille-et-Vilaine 281
Maine-et-Loire 280
Loire 173
Ain 171
Rhône 163

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

In Switzerland’s population statistics

47 people named Jolivet live in Switzerland.

They live in 5 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

Vaud 22
Geneva 11
Fribourg 5
Valais 5
Jura 4

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 Jolivet,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Rita Jolivet
    Rita Jolivet 1884–1971 · actor
  • Jean-Baptiste-Moïse Jollivet 1753–1818 · politician
  • Marie-Gabriel Jolivet 1793–1870 · architect
  • Auguste Jolivet 1814–1877 · inventor
  • Charles-Constant Jolivet 1826–1903 · Catholic priest
  • François-Henri Jolivet 1875–1955 · poet

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

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