Payet
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of Payeur, ‘treasurer’ or payer of disbursements
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɛjɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Payet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Réunion it is the 8th most common surname.
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- RERéunion≈1 in 1.5K
- SCSeychelles≈1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Payet itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 292 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Variant of Payeur, ‘treasurer’ or payer of disbursements.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Payet 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 | #110 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 4.8K | Payet | 292 |
| RE Réunion | #8 | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Payet | 52 |
| US United States | — | 474as Paille | 1 in 702K | 474 | Payet | 71 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Payet | 68 |
| ES Spain | — | 204 | 1 in 245K | 204 | Payet | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 45 | 1 in 187K | 45 | Payet | 16 |
| SC Seychelles | #9 | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Payet | 23 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alain Payetb. 1947FRFrench pornographic film director & actor (1947–2007)
- Paulet Payetb. 1947FRFrench politician
- Anne-Marie Payetb. 1949FRFrench politician
- Jean-Michel Payetb. 1955FRFrench architect
- Pascal Payetb. 1963FRFrench escapee from detention
- Rolph Payetb. 1968SCSeychellois politician
- Manu Payetb. 1975FRFrench actor, comedian, radio and television presenter
- Laëtitia Payetb. 1985FRFrench judoka
- Dimitri Payetb. 1987REFrench footballer (born 1987)
- Marie Payetb. 1992FRBeauty pageant winner
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 5.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 5.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 4.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 306 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 204 | #16,313 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Payet mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Payeur, ‘treasurer’ or payer of disbursements. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How do you pronounce Payet?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛjɛ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Payet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Payet in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled payet.
- How common is the name Payet?
- In Spain, the national register counted 204 people named Payet, about 1 in 245 thousand residents.
- How common is Payet compared with other names?
- In France, Payet is the 110th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/payetThe 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, “Payet” — the 110th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.