Pitre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: clown, buffoon
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpaɪtɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pitre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 50K
- CNChina≈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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 308 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
clown, buffoon
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pitre 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Pitre | 3 |
| US United States | — | 6,637 | 1 in 50K | 6.6K | Pitre | 308 |
| DZ Algeria | #568 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Pitre | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Pitre | 140 |
| FR France | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 105 | — | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Pitre | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Pitre | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Pitre 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 French, de l’ancien français pistre « boulanger », surnom fondé sur le métier.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Didier Pitreb. 1883CACanadian ice hockey player (1883-1934)
- Merline Pitreb. 1943USAmerican historian and educator
- Joseph Pitreb. 1946USAmerican politician
- Louise Pitreb. 1957CACanadian actress
- Nicholas Pitreb. 1960CACanadian painter (born 1960)
- Loulan Pitre, Jr.b. 1961USAmerican politician
- Dee Dee Blanchardb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican fraudster and murder victim (1967-2015)
- Brant James Pitreb. 1975USNew Testament scholar
- Duane PitreUSAmerican musician and composer
- Isabelle PitreCAQuebec writer
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 24 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.6K | #5,257 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.4K | #5,287 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.1K | #5,240 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 132 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 126 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 119 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 106 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 105 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 104 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 98 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 92 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 79 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Pitre mean, and where does it come from?
- clown, buffoon Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pitre?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpaɪtɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pitre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 109 thousand people named Pitre in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pitre.
- How common is the name Pitre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,637 people named Pitre in 2010, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
- How common is Pitre compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Pitre is the 568th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pitreThe 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, “Pitre” — the 568th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.