Fiacre
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Irish saint name, from Gaelic fiach ‘raven’ or uncertain Celtic origin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fjakʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fiacre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 118K(inferred from the name graph)
- BIBurundi≈1 in 24K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 67K
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
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈570 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Burundi, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Irish saint name, from Gaelic fiach ‘raven’ or uncertain Celtic origin
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fiacre is read(measured from records)
Fiacre is one spelling over 2 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.
- French91%
Irish saint name, from Gaelic fiach ‘raven’ or uncertain Celtic origin
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
From Latin/Irish tradition, name of a 7th-c. saint; origin uncertain.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Nom de saint irlandais; saint Fiacre, invoqué contre la sécheresse et les migraines.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Nom de saint d’origine incertaine, probablement gauloise/latine.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Origine celtique, « corbeau ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English5.4%
A small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Fiacre 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 | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 83 | Fiacre | 156 |
| BI Burundi | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 1 | — | 1 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Fiacre | 4 |
| BJ Benin | #597 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Fiacre | 15 |
| BE Belgium | — | 59 | 1 in 199K | 59 | Fiacre | 13 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025. 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)
- Gabrielle Fiacreb. 1949FRFrench politician
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 | 107 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 83 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 76 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 69 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 59 | #23,275 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 43 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Fiacre mean, and where does it come from?
- Irish saint name, from Gaelic fiach ‘raven’ or uncertain Celtic origin Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Fiacre?
- A machine transcription gives /fjakʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Fiacre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 573 people named Fiacre in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fiacre.
- How common is the name Fiacre?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 59 people named Fiacre in 2008, about 1 in 199 thousand residents.
- How common is Fiacre compared with other names?
- In Benin, Fiacre is the 597th most common surname of 5,339 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/fiacreThe 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, “Fiacre” — the 597th most common surname in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.