Têtard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: tadpole (larva of the frog or toad)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Têtard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 467K
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.9M
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
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, 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 Tetard in FR France, US United States, ES Spain and 3 more.
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)
tadpole (larva of the frog or toad)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Têtard 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 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 226 | Tetard | 194 |
| DE Germany | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Tetard | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | 18 | 1 in 467K | 18 | Tetard | 8 |
| US United States | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 21M | — | Tetard | 24 |
| ES Spain | 14 | 1 in 3.6M | 14 | Tetard | 11 |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | Tetard | 14 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
Têtard 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 nrm, pollard
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Têtard mean, and where does it come from?
- tadpole (larva of the frog or toad) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Têtard have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Têtard in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tetard.
- How common is the name Têtard?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 18 people named Têtard in 2024, about 1 in 467 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Têtard?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%AAtardThe 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, “Têtard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.