Mitterrand
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Francois, president, France
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/miteʁɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mitterrand is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- CMCameroon
- FRFrance
- CHSwitzerland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Francois, president, France
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Mitterrand 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 Croatian, dugogodišnji predsjednik Socijalističke partije Francuske i protivnik Ch. de Gaullea, prvi socijalist koji je izabran za predsjednika Francuske (1981—1995); vodio pragmatičnu politiku centra
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Joseph Mitterrandb. 1873FR(1873-1946)
- Jacques Mitterrandb. 1908FRFrench politician, Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1908-1991)
- Robert Mitterrandb. 1915FRFrench engineer (1915–2002)
- François Mitterrandb. 1916FR21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995 (1916–1996)
- Jacques Mitterrandb. 1918FRFrench general officer, brother of François Mitterrand (1918–2009)
- Danielle Mitterrandb. 1924FRwife of François Mitterrand (1924-2011)
- Jean-Christophe Mitterrandb. 1946FRSon of French President
- Frédéric Mitterrandb. 1947FRFrench politician (1947–2024)
- Gilbert Mitterrandb. 1949FRFrench politician
- Mazarine Pingeotb. 1974FRnot in their usual nameFrench 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 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 10 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 2 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Mitterrand mean, and where does it come from?
- Francois, president, France Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Mitterrand?
- A machine transcription gives /miteʁɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Mitterrand have the most bearers?
- Mitterrand is most frequently recorded in France.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mitterrandThe 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, “Mitterrand”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.