Pêtït
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pêtït is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old French petit, from Vulgar Latin pittitus (775; compare Latin pitinnus, pitulus). Compare Spanish pequeño.
- BEBelgium1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 20K
- UYUruguay1 in 23K
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)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
6,144 people, 2008
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Petit in US United States, BE Belgium, NL Netherlands.
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)- Old Frenchpetit(measured from records)
- Vulgar Latinpittitus775; compare Latin pitinnus(measured from records)
Inherited from Old French petit, from Vulgar Latin pittitus (775; compare Latin pitinnus, pitulus). Compare Spanish pequeño.
Cited for this meaning 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pêtït 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 | 6,144 | 1 in 1.9K | 6.1K | Petit | 4 |
| US United States | 6,090 | 1 in 55K | 6.2K | Petit | 12 |
| ES Spain | 1,775 | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 1,211 | 1 in 38K | 1.2K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 655 | 1 in 323K | 655 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 542 | 1 in 32K | 542 | Petit | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 415 | 1 in 20K | 415 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 146 | 1 in 23K | 146 | — | — |
6,144 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 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pêtït mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old French petit, from Vulgar Latin pittitus (775; compare Latin pitinnus, pitulus). Compare Spanish pequeño. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Pêtït a male or female name?
- Pêtït is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Pêtït have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Pêtït, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petit.
- Where is Pêtït most common?
- Pêtït is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pêtït?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 6,144 people named Pêtït in 2008, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%AAt%C3%AFtThe 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, “Pêtït”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.