Given name & surname

Boucher

Boucher is a surname from French. It is used in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.

Original FrenchBocher

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Boucher comes from French.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From French Boucher.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Boucher’s family of names

In French usage, Boucher as a surname shares a linguistic root with the English form Butcher. In French usage, Boucher as a surname has a related form in BOCHER. In English usage, Boucher as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Butcher.

Walk Boucher’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Boucher has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its French roots to each of them.

French

Frenchwhere Boucher comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

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French

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French

Bellanger

Bellanger is a surname from French.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Boucher’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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