Payette
loc · Latin script
Meaning: altération de Payet, nom de quelques localités dans les Landes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Payette is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 115Kas Pyatt(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 6.3Mas Pyatt
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Payette itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 115K (inferred from the name graph)
2,890 named Pyatt, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States, as Pyatt
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Pyatt in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)altération de Payet, nom de quelques localités dans les Landes
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Where in the world
(measured from records)Payette 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 | 2,890as Pyatt | 1 in 115K | 2.9K | Pyatt | 6 |
| ES Spain | 8as Pyatt | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 1.2K | — | 3 |
| EC Ecuador | — | — | 1 | — | — |
2,890 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)Payette 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 English, river county, ID
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)- Louis Payetteb. 1854CAformer mayor of Montreal, Quebec (1908-1910)
- Eugène Payetteb. 1874CACanadian architect
- Lise Payetteb. 1931CACanadian politician (1931–2018)
- Serge Payetteb. 1943CACanadian biologist and university professor
- Jean Payetteb. 1946CACanadian ice hockey player
- Dominique Payetteb. 1954CACanadian journalist and school teacher
- Sylvie Payetteb. 1958CACanadian writer
- Julie Payetteb. 1963CA29th governor general of Canada, former CSA Astronaut (born 1963)
- Andre Payetteb. 1976CACanadian ice hockey player
- Corey Payetteb. 1987CACanadian composer
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,248 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,852 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,752 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 6 | #203,151 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Payette mean?
- Recorded meaning: altération de Payet, nom de quelques localités dans les Landes
- In which country does Payette have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Pyatt, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Payette most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Payette itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 115 thousand people named Pyatt.
- How common is the name Payette?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,890 people named Pyatt in 2010, about 1 in 115 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Payette?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/payetteThe 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, “Payette”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.