Py
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of pack-year
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Py is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 7.8K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 101K
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
- 241 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of pack-year.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Py 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.
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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Py is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, a trifling blemish character. sb F- a young child, my pupil. MAS douceurs, as to waiters houses
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, right, correct, this, these, to be, is, yes, it is right, (ng-sé), (ciang-sé)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, pouting mouth and flattened nose is displeased
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In enm, alternative form of pye (“magpie”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Korean, pyeong — an areal unit of measure symbol/abbreviation for a traditional Korean unit
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)
- Denis Fernand Pyb. 1887FRFrench sculptor, medal artist and engraver (1887–1949)
- Bertrand Pyb. 1895FRFrench painter (1895–1973)
- Michel Pyb. 1947FRFrench prehistorian and director of research at cnrs
- Roland Pyb. 1956FRFrench politician
- François Pyb. 1957FRFrench politician
- Bruno Pyb. 1964FRFrench jurist
- Olivier Pyb. 1965FRFrench actor, theater director and author of stage works
- Michel Pyb. 1971FRFrench politician
- Amandine Pyb. 1978FRFrench translator
- Bernadette PyFRFrench art historian
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 601 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 601 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 589 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 562 | #15,323 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 515 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 468 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 460 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 454 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 448 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 443 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 432 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 381 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Py mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of pack-year. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Py?
- A machine transcription gives /pi/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Py have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Py in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled py.
- Where is Py most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Py is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 7.8 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Py?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 562 people named Py, about 1 in 377 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Py?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pyThe 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, “Py”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.