Pannier
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pannier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A large basket or bag fastened, usually in pairs, to the back of a bicycle or pack animal, or carried in pairs over the shoulders.
- USUnited States1 in 718K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 21M
- BEBelgium1 in 46K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
463 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A large basket or bag fastened, usually in pairs, to the back of a bicycle or pack animal, or carried in pairs over the shoulders.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pannier 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 463 | 1 in 718K | 463 | Pannier | 145 |
| BE Belgium | 255 | 1 in 46K | 255 | Pannier | 15 |
| PL Poland | 16 | 1 in 2.4M | 9 | Pannier | 1 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | Pannier | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 21M | — | Pannier | 81 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 2 |
463 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Léopold Pannierb. 1842FRFrench librarian and historian
- Jane Pannierb. 1876FRFrench social activist (1876-1944)
- Rudolf Pannierb. 1897DESS officer (1897-1978)
- Michèle Pannierb. 1947FRFrench politician
- Raymond Pannierb. 1961FRFrench athletics competitor
- Christophe Pannierb. 1965FRFrench politician
- Agnès Pannierb. 1966FRFrench lawyer and politician
- Agnès Pannier-Runacherb. 1974FRFrench politician and business executive
- Anthony Pannierb. 1988FRFrench swimmer
- Pascal Pannierb. 1998DEassociation football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 463 | #46,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 448 | #45,078 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 445 | #50,714 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 255 | #6,569 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 253 | #6,938 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #145,674 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #167,667 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Pannier mean, and where does it come from?
- A large basket or bag fastened, usually in pairs, to the back of a bicycle or pack animal, or carried in pairs over the shoulders. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pannier have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 463 people named Pannier, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pannier.
- Where is Pannier most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pannier is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pannier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 463 people named Pannier in 2010, about 1 in 718 thousand residents.
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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, “Pannier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.