Paquier
surname · Latin script
Meaning: near a piece of land used for (communal) grazing, OF pasquier (LL pascuarium, from pascere to graze), or habi¬ tation name from a place named with this word
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pakje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paquier is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Switzerland.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
near a piece of land used for (communal) grazing, OF pasquier (LL pascuarium, from pascere to graze), or habi¬ tation name from a place named with this word. Vars.: Pasquier, Pasquie; Pasquer (Brittany); Dupa(s)quier. Dims.: Paquereau. Prov.: Pascarel.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paquier counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | — | 209 | — |
| FR France | — | 209 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 37 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 33 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 7 | — |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Richard Paquierb. 1905CH(1905-1985)
- Guillaume Paquierb. 1978FRFrench politician
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 10 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 347 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 295 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 291 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 282 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 277 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 235 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 235 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 212 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 209 | #6,036 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 209 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 204 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 138 | — |
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 Paquier mean, and where does it come from?
- near a piece of land used for (communal) grazing, OF pasquier (LL pascuarium, from pascere to graze), or habi¬ tation name from a place named with this word. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Paquier?
- A machine transcription gives /pakje/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Paquier have the most bearers?
- Paquier is most frequently recorded in Switzerland.
What do you want to know about Paquier?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paquierThe 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, “Paquier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.