Pépin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic origin; from a Frankish name, related to Pepin, meaning uncertain
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pepɛ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pépin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 8.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 12K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 42K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 297 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pepin in US United States, FR France, CA Canada and 3 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)
Germanic origin; from a Frankish name, related to Pepin, meaning uncertain.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pépin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Pepin | 2 |
| FR France | #703 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 822 | Pepin | 236 |
| US United States | — | 4,731 | 1 in 70K | 4.7K | Pepin | 297 |
| CA Canada | #717 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Pepin | 152 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 121 | Pepin | 80 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Pepin | 2 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | — | 2 |
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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Pépin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, pip (the seed from fruit)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Dans Romainville ou la Promenade du dimanche , vaudeville joué aux Variétés en 1807, un personnage de ce nom entrait en scène avec un très grand parapluie. Le mot est rapidement passé dans la langue pour désigner un parapluie en général.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
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)
- Adèle Dumont d'Urvilleb. 1798FRnot in their usual namewife of French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1798–1842)
- Antoinette Pépin Fitzpatrickb. 1908ARFrench musician
- Jean-Luc Pépinb. 1924CACanadian politician (1924-1995)
- Clermont Pépinb. 1926CACanadian composer (1926-2006)
- Jacques Pépinb. 1935FRFrench-born American chef, author, culinary educator, television personality, and author
- Lucie Pépinb. 1936CACanadian politician
- Jean Pépinb. 1939FRFrench politician (1939-2015)
- Ernest Pépinb. 1950FRFrench poet and writer
- Charles Pépinb. 1973FRFrench philosopher
- Camille Pépinb. 1990FRFrench composer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Pépin mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic origin; from a Frankish name, related to Pepin, meaning uncertain. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Pépin?
- A machine transcription gives /pepɛ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Pépin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Pépin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pepin.
- How common is the name Pépin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,731 people named Pépin in 2010, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
- How common is Pépin compared with other names?
- In France, Pépin is the 703rd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pépin?
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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%A9pinThe 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, “Pépin” — the 703rd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.