Pensée

org · Latin script

Meaning, in French: feminine singular of pensé

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pensée is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 16M(inferred from the name graph)
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 263K

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈390 people, est.

Sources
33 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 263K (inferred from the name graph)

Congo - Kinshasa, 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 Pensee in FR France and Pensèe in CD Congo - Kinshasa.

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)

feminine singular of pensé

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

How Pensée is read(measured from records)

Pensée is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French100%

    feminine singular of pensé

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English25%

    A thought.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pensée 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.

Where Pensée is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈390 est.≈1 in 263K—Pensèe3
FR France≈4 est.≈1 in 16M2Pensee33
AU Australia——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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pensée is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Pensèe, Pensee

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Penseè, Pensee

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pensee

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pensee

5 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pensée 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 frm, thought

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In nrm, pansy

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pensée under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pensée mean, and where does it come from?
feminine singular of pensé Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Pensée have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 387 people named Pensée in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pensèe.
How common is the name Pensée?
Mondonomo estimates about 390 people in Congo - Kinshasa have Pensée as their first given name, about 1 in 263 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pens%C3%A9e

The 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, “Pensée”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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