Moineau
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: sparrow
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/mwano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moineau is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- BEBelgium
- NZNew Zealand
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)A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Moineau is read
(measured from records)Moineau 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.
- French79%
sparrow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
de moineau, surnom d’un individu léger au sens propre ou figuré
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English18%
A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jules Moineaub. 1858BEBelgian anarchist (1858-1934)
- René Moineaub. 1887BEFrench pilot and engineer (1887–1948)
- Julien Moineaub. 1903FRFrench cyclist (1903–1980)
- Georges Moineaub. 1914FRFrench composer (1914–2008)
- Alain Moineaub. 1928FRFrench cyclist (1928-1986)
- Sylvain Moineaub. 1965CAmicrobiologist and university professor
- Nicolas Moineaub. 1977FRFrench rock climber
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 168 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 141 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 138 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 133 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 129 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 128 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 124 | #13,003 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 109 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 100 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 99 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 73 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 72 | — |
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
- Where does the name Moineau come from?
- A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Moineau?
- A machine transcription gives /mwano/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Moineau mean?
- In French, sparrow
- In which country does Moineau have the most bearers?
- Moineau is most frequently recorded in France.
What do you want to know about Moineau?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moineauThe 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, “Moineau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.