Pelerin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A pilgrim

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/pleɛ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pelerin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 355K(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Belgium (measured from records)

33 people, 2008

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 355K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A pilgrim.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pelerin 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.

Where Pelerin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium331 in 355K33Pelerin7
US United States——listedPelerin61
GB United Kingdom——5Pelerin6
JM Jamaica———Pelerin1
CA Canada———Pelerin6
MA Morocco———Pelerin1

33 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pelerin is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pélerin, Pèlerin

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Pélerin, Pèlerin

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Pèlerin, Pélériñ

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pelerin is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In frm, pilgrim (person who makes a pilgrimage)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Turkish, cape (garment)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, pilgrim

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, PELERÍN, pelerini, s. m. Persoană care face un pelerinaj. ♦ (Rar) Persoană care călătorește mult (din loc în loc); călător.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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)

  • Roger Pelerinb. 1945CAQuebec personality from the world of the arts (born 1945)

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Pelerin, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Pelerin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200833#34,661
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20025#230,412
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Pelerin mean, and where does it come from?
A pilgrim. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Pelerin?
A machine transcription gives /pleɛ̃/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Pelerin have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 33 people named Pelerin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelerin.
Where is Pelerin most common?
Pelerin is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 355 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Pelerin?
In Belgium, the national register counted 33 people named Pelerin in 2008, about 1 in 355 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, “Pelerin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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