Piqué
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: first-person singular preterite indicative of picar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Piqué is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 964K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 25K
- NLNetherlands1 in 41K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
1,974 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pique in US United States, ES Spain, 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)
A kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Piqué is read(measured from records)
Piqué 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.
- Spanish53%
first-person singular preterite indicative of picar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French23%
past participle of piquer
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Piqué 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 1,974 | 1 in 25K | 2K | Pique | 36 |
| NL Netherlands | 418 | 1 in 41K | 418 | Pique | 29 |
| US United States | 345 | 1 in 964K | 379 | Pique | 132 |
| AR Argentina | 337 | 1 in 135K | 337 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 313 | 1 in 676K | 313 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 37 | 1 in 92K | 37 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | 1 |
1,974 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Piqué 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 English, A kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lou, to sting
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Josep Piquéb. 1955ESSpanish politician (1955–2023)
- Montserrat Boixb. 1960ESnot in their usual nameCatalan journalist
- Susel Paredesb. 1963PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician and lawyer
- Fèlix Larrosa i Piquéb. 1964ESSpanish politician
- Elisabetta Piquéb. 1965ARItalian journalist
- Mitchell Piquéb. 1979NLDutch footballer
- Marco Piquéb. 1980NLDutch-Surinamese welterweight kickboxer
- Gerard Piquéb. 1987ESSpanish association football player (born 1987)
- Milan Piqué Mebarakb. 2013ESson of Gerard Piqué and Shakira
- Sasha Piqué Mebarakb. 2015ESson of Gerard Piqué and Shakira
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 418 | #4,800 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 4 | #621 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Piqué come from?
- A kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Piqué mean?
- In Spanish, first-person singular preterite indicative of picar
- In which country does Piqué have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Piqué, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pique.
- Where is Piqué most common?
- Piqué is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Piqué?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,974 people named Piqué, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/piqu%C3%A9The 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, “Piqué”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.