The Foucault Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

In Wikidata, Foucault is listed as a French surname. Begin with the numbers and the Foucault surname comes into focus. No reliable dictionary entry explains Foucault, so any origin we give a client is traced from their own ancestors.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Foucault with 400 bearers, at rank 51,941. 9,171 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Foucault name at birth. There were 446 such births in the 1890s and 795 in the 1990s.

If a Foucault family bore arms, our report explains whose they were and what the blazon shows. Want more than a summary? See the Foucault family name pack.