Sillon
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: furrow
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sijɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sillon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 179K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 623K
- ARArgentina1 in 2.1M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 179K (inferred from the name graph)
≈380 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Sillon is read(measured from records)
Sillon is one spelling over 3 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.
- French61%
furrow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English20%
A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sillon in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Sillon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 179K | 55 | Sillon | 141 |
| PH Philippines | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 623K | — | Sillon | 3 |
| US United States | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 9.4M | listed | Sillon | 11 |
| AR Argentina | 22 | 1 in 2.1M | 22 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Sillon | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | 2 |
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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sillon is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Franču katoļu kustība un apvienība ticības un cilvēku sabiedrības labā, 19. gs. beigās un 20. gs. sākumā
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)
- Renée Veyretb. 1946FRnot in their usual nameFrench diplomat
- Dominic Sillonb. 1972CAperforming artist in Canada
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 8 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 86 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 34 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 20 | — |
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
- Where does the name Sillon come from?
- A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sillon?
- A machine transcription gives /sijɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Sillon mean?
- In French, furrow
- In which country does Sillon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 380 people named Sillon in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sillon.
- How common is the name Sillon?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 22 people named Sillon, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sillonThe 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, “Sillon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.