Worldwide, Paintre (Painter 
, Paintre 
) is a rare primarily boy's, but scarcely girly first name. The forename Paintre is characteristic of Iraq, where it is a rare masculine name, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, where it is a very rare masculine name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Egypt, Iraq, and India. Much more frequently, Paintre is the last name as well as the forename.
Paintre is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Painter Smurf , the The Smurfs character; Painter , the comics character; Painter , the operatic character in the opera Julien by Gustave Charpentier, Julien ou La Vie du poète; Painter , the character in the play "The visit" and Painter , the musical character in the musical Originale by Karlheinz Stockhausen.