Crépin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin Crispinus, from crispus 'curly-haired'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʀepɛ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Crépin is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Latin Crispinus, from crispus 'curly-haired'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Crépin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 902 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 367 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 48 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 37 | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 15 | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Crépin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du nom latin Crispīnus, dérivé de crispus « crépu, frisé ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, From Latin Crispinus, 'curly-haired'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Louis Crépinb. 1828BEBelgian painter and sculptor (1828-1887)
- François Crépinb. 1830BEBelgian botanist (1830-1903)
- Eugène Jacques Philippe Crépinb. 1861FRRoman Catholic bishop (1861-1942)
- André Crépinb. 1907FRFrench athletics competitor
- Aliette Crépinb. 1930FRFrench politician (1930-2019)
- Margit Otto-Crépinb. 1945DEFrench equestrian (1945–2020)
- Lars Crépinb. 1950SESwedish cinematographer
- Bertrand Crepinb. 1963FRFrench politician
- Malin Crépinb. 1978SESwedish actress
- Stéphane Crépinb. 1980FRFrench handball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 306 | #5,581 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 296 | #5,600 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 37 | #23,367 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Crépin mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Crispinus, from crispus 'curly-haired'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Crépin?
- A machine transcription gives /kʀepɛ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Crépin have the most bearers?
- Crépin is most frequently recorded in France.
What do you want to know about Crépin?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cr%C3%A9pinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Crépin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.