Paon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: peacock
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 145K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 682K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 850K
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
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 145K (inferred from the name graph)
≈470 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
peacock
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paon 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 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 145K | 60 | Paon | 141 |
| PH Philippines | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 682K | — | Paon | 2 |
| US United States | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | listed | Paon | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | 6 | 1 in 850K | 6 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 3 |
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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Paon is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, genitive singular of pako
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, bait; decoy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In akl, bait
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 80 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 75 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 33 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 6 | #7,727 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Paon mean, and where does it come from?
- peacock Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paon?
- A machine transcription gives /pɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Paon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 467 people named Paon in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paon.
- How common is the name Paon?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 6 people named Paon, about 1 in 850 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paonThe 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, “Paon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.