The Paquet surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,288 people carried this name — #20,574 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 227,300 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (1,294).
What the name means
The meaning of the Paquet surname
From Latin pascha (“easter”), compare Paschal.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Paquet» (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 3,691 people named Paquet.
87 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 88 départements, most often Paris.
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 Belgium’s population register
At least 1,543 people named Paquet 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 Namur.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
45 people named Paquet live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
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.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Paquet.
- Papini 390 · U.S. census
- Papion 105 · U.S. census
- Papp 4,162 · U.S. census
- Pappalardo 1,908 · U.S. census
- Paprocki 1,098 · U.S. census
- Paque 321 · U.S. census
- Paquette 9,606 · U.S. census
- Paquin 4,064 · U.S. census
- Para 1,157 · U.S. census
- Parache 196 · U.S. census
- Parachini 115 · U.S. census
- Parada 8,649 · U.S. census
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