Pelot
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpɛɫət/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pelot is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Pelot or an Americanized form of German Pelloth.
- USUnited States1 in 581K(measured from records)
- TDChad≈1 in 7.6K
- CNChina≈1 in 232K
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)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chad, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from French Pelot or an Americanized form of German Pelloth.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pelot 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 | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Pelot | 2 |
| TD Chad | #178 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Pelot | 1 |
| US United States | — | 573 | 1 in 581K | 684 | Pelot | 162 |
| FR France | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 300K | 25 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 733K | — | Pelot | 9 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 436K | — | Pelot | 1 |
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 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Pelot 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 Finnish, nominative plural of pelko
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Plēnēt, arī kvēlot
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Alma A. Pelotb. 1840US19th-century photographer, active in the American Civil War (1840–1909)
- Pierre Pelotb. 1945FRFrench science fiction writer (1945-)
- Maddi Pelotb. 1947ESBasque writer
- Alain Pelotb. 1953FRFrench politician
- Dylan Pelotb. 1969FRFrench illustrator
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 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 684 | #31,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 660 | #36,479 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 573 | #38,582 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 25 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Pelot mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Pelot or an Americanized form of German Pelloth. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Pelot?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɛɫət/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pelot have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Pelot in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelot.
- How common is the name Pelot?
- In the United States, the national register counted 573 people named Pelot in 2010, about 1 in 581 thousand residents.
- How common is Pelot compared with other names?
- In Chad, Pelot is the 178th most common surname of 674 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pelot?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pelotThe 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, “Pelot” — the 178th most common surname in Chad. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.