Pelissier
surname · Latin script
Meaning: an anglicization of French Pelissier, literally ‘maker of fur garments’, from Old French pellice ‘fur cloak’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/pəʎisje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pelissier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 548K
- HTHaiti≈1 in 14K
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)
- Record sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)an anglicization of French Pelissier, literally ‘maker of fur garments’, from Old French pellice ‘fur cloak’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pelissier 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 | #812 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 722 | Pelissier | 246 |
| HT Haiti | #357 | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Pelissier | 7 |
| US United States | — | 607 | 1 in 548K | 620 | Pelissier | 135 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Pelissier | 42 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 425K | 38 | Pelissier | 26 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | — | 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)Pelissier 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, A surname from French [in turn from Occitan].
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Eduard Pelissierb. 1850DEGerman historian (1850–1931)
- H. G. Pelissierb. 1874GBEnglish theatrical producer, composer and satirist (1874–1913)
- Anthony Pelissierb. 1912GBBritish film director/producer
- Penelope Dudley-Wardb. 1914GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress (1914-1982)
- Albert Pelissierb. 1917FRFrench golfer
- Tracy Reedb. 1942GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress (1942–2012)
- Christian Pelissierb. 1945FRFrench actor
- Aline Pélissierb. 1950FRFrench politician
- Matt Pelissierb. 1979USAmerican musician
- Jules Pélissierb. 1990FRFrench actor
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 939 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 798 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 793 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 767 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 755 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 722 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 658 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 650 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 620 | #38,417 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Pelissier mean, and where does it come from?
- an anglicization of French Pelissier, literally ‘maker of fur garments’, from Old French pellice ‘fur cloak’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Pelissier?
- A machine transcription gives /pəʎisje/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Pelissier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Pelissier in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelissier.
- How common is the name Pelissier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 607 people named Pelissier in 2010, about 1 in 548 thousand residents.
- How common is Pelissier compared with other names?
- In France, Pelissier is the 812th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pelissier?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pelissierThe 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, “Pelissier” — the 812th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.