Quebec’s story is written in its surnames.
While the province has grown into a diverse society — with immigrants and visible minorities making up 14% and 16% of the population, according to the Institut de la statistique du Québec — its French Canadian roots remain the quintessential part of its identity.
You can see those roots in the names you regularly stumble upon throughout the province. In fact, many of Quebec’s most common last names today trace back to the early settlers of “Nouvelle-France” in the 17th century. Take Tremblay, for example — it’s the most common surname in Quebec and the third most common across Canada, with 106,669 people sharing it nationwide.
Thanks to updated data from Yourfolks.com, we’ve also got a snapshot of which names continue to top the charts in la belle province, along with how often they appear in public records.
Think you can guess the rest? Here’s a look at the 25 most common last names in Quebec, ranked by frequency.
- Tremblay: 53,788
- Gagnon: 48,287
- Roy: 47,526
- Cote: 42,679
- Gauthier: 34,224
- Morin: 32,894
- Belanger: 29,569
- Bouchard: 29,065
- Pelletier: 28,825
- Gagne: 28,016
- Lavoie: 26,548
- Fortin: 25,917
- Levesque: 24,275
- Boucher: 23,786
- Bergeron: 22,537
- Caron: 21,659
- Leblanc: 21,478
- Girard: 21,066
- Lefebvre: 20,757
- Simard: 20,662
- Fournier: 20,547
- Ouellet: 20,139
- Cloutier: 19,674
- Martin: 18,333
- Dube: 18,281
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