Pécheur
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sinning; sinful
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pécheur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 49K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 6.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
237 people, 2008
Reference-verified
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pecheur in DZ Algeria, MA Morocco, TN Tunisia.
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)
sinning; sinful
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pécheur 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 237 | 1 in 49K | 237 | — | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 6.5M | — | Pecheur | 4 |
| MA Morocco | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 9.9M | — | Pecheur | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| TN Tunisia | — | — | — | Pecheur | 2 |
237 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anne-Marie Pécheurb. 1950FRFrench engraver and painter
- Jacques PécheurFRFrench civil servant, journalist and teacher specializing in French as a foreign language
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
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 Pécheur mean, and where does it come from?
- sinning; sinful Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Pécheur?
- In the etymology graph, Pécher is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pécheur have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 237 people named Pécheur, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pécheur most common?
- Pécheur is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 49 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pécheur?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 237 people named Pécheur in 2008, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A9cheurThe 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, “Pécheur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.