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Early Origins of the Gougeon family

The surname Gougeon was first found in Gascony (French: Gascogne), an area of southwest France bordering Spain, that was part of the "Province of Guyenne and Gascony" prior to the French Revolution, where the family was established in a village in the department of Gers, in the canton of Ile-Jourdain.

Early History of the Gougeon family

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Gougeon Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Gougeon, Goujon, Goujou, Goujoux, Goujoud, Gougy and others.

Early Notables of the Gougeon family

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Gougeon Ranking

In Quebec, Canada, the name Gougeon is the 875th most popular surname. 1 However, in France, the name Gougeon is ranked the 1,263rd most popular surname with an estimated 4,453 people with that name. 2


United States Gougeon migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Gougeon Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Gregory Gougeon, who arrived in New York in 1701 3

Contemporary Notables of the name Gougeon (post 1700) +

  • Joel D. Gougeon, American Republican politician, Member of Michigan State Senate 34th District; Elected 1998 4


  1. "The first 1,000 family names by rank, Quebec (in French only)" Institut de la statistique du Quebec, https://statistique.quebec.ca/en/document/family-names-in-quebec/tableau/the-first-1000-family-names-by-rank-quebec
  2. http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
  3. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  4. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 23) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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