The Tremblay surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 7,802 people carried this name — #4,210 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 34,600 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 1,050 people named Tremblay.
29 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 51 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
53 people named Tremblay 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 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Tremblay in American newspapers,
1892–1961.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 11,461 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Tremblay,
with a public archive behind them.
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Thomas Louis Tremblay 1886–1951 · military personnel -
Angélina Berthiaume-Du Tremblay 1886–1976 · newspaper editor -
Gérald Tremblay 1948– · writer -
Richard-Max Tremblay 1952– · photographer -
Johanne Tremblay 1963– · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 230 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tremblay.
- Traves 152 · U.S. census
- Trebes 140 · U.S. census
- Treger 291 · U.S. census
- Treglia 521 · U.S. census
- Treiber 1,399 · U.S. census
- Trela 573 · U.S. census
- Tremble 1,289 · U.S. census
- Trembley 1,103 · U.S. census
- Tremel 359 · U.S. census
- Tremont 408 · U.S. census
- Trenchard 390 · U.S. census
- Trendel 175 · U.S. census
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