de La Houssaye Surname

1,328,442nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 169 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
Netherlands

de La Houssaye Surname Definition:

The De la Houssaye (Delahoussaye) clan of Louisiana claims descent from French aristocracy. In France the patronym originally appears to have been Pelletier or Le Pelletier, de la Houssaye being a titular appelation.* In Louisiana, although several family members retained Pelletier as a surname, today most have assumed De la Houssaye as the accepted patronym.

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de La Houssaye Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
France661:1,006,405112,047
United States631:5,753,316282,354
Netherlands311:544,74849,659
Brazil71:30,582,047441,004
Dominican Republic41:2,608,23320,941
Ecuador21:7,952,92334,269
Bulgaria11:6,978,90586,260
England11:55,718,059489,080
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England51:4,875,074116,529
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

de La Houssaye Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

The De la Houssaye (Delahoussaye) clan of Louisiana claims descent from French aristocracy. In France the patronym originally appears to have been Pelletier or Le Pelletier, de la Houssaye being a titular appelation.* In Louisiana, although several family members retained Pelletier as a surname, today most have assumed De la Houssaye as the accepted patronym.

The progenitor of most Louisianians of that name was Paul-Augustin le Pelletier de la Houssaye, who came to New Orleans as a French army officer probably in the 1740s.

There he married Madeleine-Victoire Petit de Livillier of a rich and politically powerful family in the city.

After serving for a time as commandant of Arkansas Post (1752), he returned to New Orleans to become town major (1763) and was later awarded the military honor of Chevalier de St. Louis.

Soon thereafter he moved with his family to Poste des Attakapas (St. Martinville), where in 1769 he was appointed commandant of the provincial militia.

During the late eighteenth century and much of the nineteenth, Paul-Augustin and his descendants formed one of the most influential families of the Teche area.

He and his sons, Louis and Alexandre-Étienne (both of whom married into the Pellerin family with noble roots France), acquired large land holdings along Bayou Teche and modest cattle herds in the adjacent prairies between the Teche and Vermilion River. In 1771 the father obtained a grant of some 1,200 acres on the Teche at Fausse Pointe, near present New Iberia, where he established the first family estate.

Three years later he possessed 40 cattle, 6 horses, and 20 sheep and was cultivating a portion of his land with 24 slaves.

Through grants and purchases, by 1800 the two sons had acquired title to more than 11,000 acres of land along the Teche south of St. Martinville.

Subsequent years saw a gradual decrease in the number and size of the De la Houssaye properties in the Teche area, although many of the families ran cattle in the adjacent prairies until the Civil War.

Only two members of the clan became substantial antebellum planters along the Teche; François-Chevalier De la Houssaye, son of Louis, grew cotton on his estate in St. Mary Parish, and Barthélemy-Octave, son of Alexandre-Étienne, cultivated sugarcane on his Hillside Plantation near present Jeanerette.

Barthélemy-Octave's brother, Alexandre le Pelletier, established the only steamboat line between St. Martinville and New Orleans in operation from the 1820s until the Civil War.

His elder son, Louis-Alexandre le Pelletier, whose wife was Sidonie Perret of Louisiana literary fame, in 1841 moved from St. Martinville to Franklin on the lower Teche, the southernmost point of De la Houssaye residence in the state.

Until ca 1870 almost all of the De la Houssayes lived in the Teche area between St. Martinville and Franklin.

One family, however, headed by Gustave and Eugenie Richard (its connection with the main De la Houssaye line is uncertain) in the 1840s settled in the Grand Coteau area near the Teche in St. Landry Parish.

After 1870 several families began to migrate westward toward Abbeville and later to Crowley and Lake Charles.

In the present century many moved to New Orleans and some to southeastern Texas. But still today over half of the De la Houssaye households in Louisiana remain in the Teche area, and property at Fausse Pointe, the initial place of settlement of the clan's progenitor more than 200 years ago, is still in the hands of some of his descendants

— An Atlas of Louisiana Surnames of French and Spanish Origin (1986) by Robert Cooper West
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de La Houssaye Demographics

Average de La Houssaye Salary in
United States

$87,018 USD

Per year
Rank:
42,137 of 1,180,305
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
7.14219E-6
Rank: 526,096 of 1,181,369
Percentage of national average salary:
201.66%
Sample size: 7 (2014)

Average Salary in
United States

$43,149 USD

Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD

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de La Houssaye Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name de La Houssaye Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname de La Houssaye is more commonly found in France than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name de La Houssaye? popularity and diffusion

de La Houssaye is the 1,328,442nd most common family name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 43,121,573 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 58 percent of de La Houssaye reside; 56 percent reside in Western Europe and 38 percent reside in Gallo-Europe.

This surname is most common in France, where it is carried by 66 people, or 1 in 1,006,405. In France it is most numerous in: Île-de-France, where 62 percent are found, Hauts-de-France, where 15 percent are found and Occitanie, where 12 percent are found. Other than France it is found in 9 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 37 percent are found and The Netherlands, where 18 percent are found.

de La Houssaye Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of de La Houssaye has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the de La Houssaye last name rose 6,300 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it fell 80 percent between 1881 and 2014.

de La Houssaye Last Name Statistics demography

de La Houssaye earn more than double the average income. In United States they earn 101.67% more than the national average, earning $87,018 USD per year.

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