Find out how popular the last name Jolicœur is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Jolicœur.

Jolicœur, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Jolicœur surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Jolicœur in America

Jolicœur is the 19796th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Jolicœur surname appeared 1,359 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Jolicœur.

We can also compare 2010 data for Jolicœur to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Jolicœur

The surname Jolicoeur originates from France, dating back to the Middle Ages. It is derived from the old French words "joli" meaning "pretty" and "coeur" meaning "heart". The name was likely initially used as a nickname for someone with a kind and gentle disposition.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name Jolicoeur appears in the Litterae Patentes, a collection of official documents from the reign of King Philip IV of France in the early 14th century. This suggests the surname was already in use by that time period in parts of northern France.

During the Renaissance era, Jolicoeur was a fairly common surname among the French nobility and gentry. Notable figures bearing this name include Gilles Jolicoeur (1544-1622), a respected jurist and legal scholar who served as a judge in the Parlement of Paris.

As French settlers began colonizing parts of North America in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Jolicoeur name spread to the New World. Jacques Jolicoeur (1678-1741) was among the earliest immigrants with this surname, settling in Quebec in the early 1700s.

In later centuries, the Jolicoeur surname could be found across various regions of France, such as Normandy, Brittany, and the Île-de-France area around Paris. Prominent individuals include Général Charles Jolicoeur (1796-1874), a French military officer who served under Napoleon.

Other historical figures with the Jolicoeur surname include Marguerite Jolicoeur (1822-1899), a renowned French artist known for her portraits and landscape paintings, and Henri Jolicoeur (1862-1926), a pioneering French aviator and one of the first pilots in Europe.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Jolicœur

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Jolicœur.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Jolicœur was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Jolicœur has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Jolicœur was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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