Vaillancourt

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French Vaillancourt.

Proper noun

Vaillancourt (plural Vaillancourts)

1. A surname from French.

Translations

Translations

• French: Vaillancourt (fr)
• Spanish: Vaillancourt

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Vaillancourt is the 8,834^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3,709 individuals. Vaillancourt is most common among White (96.01%) individuals.

French

Alternative forms

• Vallencourt, Valencourt, Villencourt, Vilencourt

Etymology

Inherited from Old French Villencourt, from the Abbey of Villencourt (Abbaye de Villencourt), from ville+en+court, from being the location where Count William of Ponthieu held court in Thurn, on land belonging to Guillaume D'Abberville where the abbey was.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.jɑ̃.kuʁ/

Proper noun

Vaillancourt ?

1. Vaillancourt: a habitational surname from placenames

Derived terms

derived surnames

• le Vailland
• Le Vailland
• Le Vaillant
• le Vaillant
• LeVailland
• Levailland
• Levaillant
• LeVaillant
• Vailand
• Vailant
• Vailland
• Vaillant
• Vaincourt

Descendants

• English: Vaillancourt
• Spanish: Vaillancourt
• → Chinese: 瓦揚古 / 瓦扬古 (Wǎyánggǔ) (transliteration)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French Vaillancourt.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /baʝanˈkuɾ(d)/ [ba.ʝãŋˈkuɾ(ð̞)]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /baʝanˈkuɾ(d)/ [ba.ʝãŋˈkuɾ(ð̞)]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /baʎanˈkuɾ(d)/ [ba.ʎãŋˈkuɾ(ð̞)]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /baʃanˈkuɾ(d)/ [ba.ʃãŋˈkuɾ(ð̞)]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /baʒanˈkuɾ(d)/ [ba.ʒãŋˈkuɾ(ð̞)]

• Rhymes: -uɾ(d)

Proper noun

Vaillancourt ?

1. Vaillancourt: a surname from French