Pâquet

surname · Latin script

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

Pâquet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle French paquet, from Middle Dutch pac (Dutch pak), from Proto-Germanic *pakkô.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 258K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 6K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 191K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Belgium (measured from records)

1,948 people, 2008

Sources
217 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Paquet in US United States, BE Belgium, ES Spain and 1 more.

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)

Derivation of Pâquet: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Pâquet
  1. Middle Frenchpaquet(measured from records)
  2. Middle DutchpacDutch pak(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Germanic*pakkô(measured from records)

From Middle French paquet, from Middle Dutch pac (Dutch pak), from Proto-Germanic *pakkô.

Sources 3

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

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

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Pâquet is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium1,9481 in 6K1.9KPaquet40
US United States1,2881 in 258K1.3KPaquet217
ES Spain1191 in 420K119Paquet9
BR Brazil471 in 4.5M47—1
CH Switzerland441 in 191K44Paquet9
FI Finland221 in 253K22—2

1,948 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Pâquet is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Paquet

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Canada, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Paquet

  • Russian surname41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Poland, Czechia

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Czech

    Also written Pace, Пейс, Paquet, Peis, Паче

4 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Anselme-Homère Pâquet, b. 1830Benjamin Pâquet, b. 1832Louis-Honoré Pâquet, b. 1838Étienne-Théodore Pâquet, b. 1850Henri Paquet, b. 1898Marguerite Pâquet, b. 1916Ursula Malbin, b. 1917Martin Pâquet, b. 1963

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 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Pâquet
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Pâquet mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle French paquet, from Middle Dutch pac (Dutch pak), from Proto-Germanic *pakkô. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Pâquet have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Pâquet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paquet.
Where is Pâquet most common?
Pâquet is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Pâquet?
In Belgium, the national register counted 1,948 people named Pâquet in 2008, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.

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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, “Pâquet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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