Pélegrin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a French surname from Occitan

Pélegrin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 17K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 82K
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 20K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

3,013 people

Sources
171 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pelegrin in ES Spain, FR France, DO Dominican Republic and 4 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)

a French surname from Occitan

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pélegrin 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 Pélegrin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—3,0131 in 17K3KPelegrin111
BR Brazil—1,5311 in 138K1.5K——
FR France—≈820 est.≈1 in 82K108Pelegrin171
DO Dominican Republic#615≈540 est.≈1 in 20K—Pelegrin18
US United States—3931 in 846K479Pelegrin73
BE Belgium—1511 in 78K151Pelegrin14
HR Croatia—881 in 48K88Pelegrin19
UY Uruguay—751 in 45K75Pelegrin7

3,013 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

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

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Pélégrin, Pelegrin, Pèlegrin, Pelegŕin, Pelegrín

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, Australia

    Also written Pelegrin, Pelegrín

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain

    Also written Pelegrin, Пелегрин, Pelegrín

2 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)

1800185019001950Henri Auguste Pélegrin, b. 1841Marc Pélegrin, b. 1923Dominique Louise Pélegrin, b. 1949

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 Pélegrin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20087#90,217

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 Pélegrin mean, and where does it come from?
a French surname from Occitan Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Pélegrin have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Pélegrin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelegrin.
Where is Pélegrin most common?
Pélegrin is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Pélegrin?
In Spain, the national register counted 3,013 people named Pélegrin, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
How common is Pélegrin compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Pélegrin is the 615th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Pélegrin” — the 615th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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