Gignac

loc · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name for someone from any of various places so called in Bouches-du-Rhone, Herault, Lot, and Vaucluse

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gignac is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
203 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitational name for someone from any of various places so called in Bouches-du-Rhone, Herault, Lot, and Vaucluse.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gignac counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Gignac is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—841—203
FR France—16—1
CH Switzerland—5—1

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gignac is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico

    Also written Gigñac, Gignaç, Gígnác

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gignac is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, De Gignac, nom de plusieurs localités du sud de la France.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

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)

1850190019502000Marie Louise Gignac, b. 1881Jean-Paul Gignac, b. 1922Francis Thomas Gignac, b. 1933Fernand Gignac, b. 1934Marie Gignac, b. 1953Clément Gignac, b. 1955Benoit Gignac, b. 1955Alain Gignac, b. 1964André-Pierre Gignac, b. 1985Brandon Gignac, b. 1997

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Gignac
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010841#28,380
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020803#30,982
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000803#28,088
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195143—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196134—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190127—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191126—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198125—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)189124—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Gignac mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name for someone from any of various places so called in Bouches-du-Rhone, Herault, Lot, and Vaucluse. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Gignac have the most bearers?
Gignac is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Gignac”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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