Pékin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Beijing (a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pékin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 237Kas Pequin(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
- BRBrazil1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pékin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈290 named Pequin, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pequin in FR France, CA Canada and Péquin in ES Spain.
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)
Beijing (a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pékin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 237K | 34 | Pequin | 115 |
| US United States | 100 | 1 in 3.3M | 100 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 73 | 1 in 2.9M | 73 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 798K | — | Pequin | 13 |
| ES Spain | 18as Pequin | 1 in 2.8M | 18 | Péquin | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pékin mean, and where does it come from?
- Beijing (a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Pékin?
- In the etymology graph, Пекин is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pékin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 287 people named Pequin in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pékin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pékin is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.1 million people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pékin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 100 people named Pékin in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 million 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%A9kinThe 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, “Pékin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.