Penelle
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Penelle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 249K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 567K
- CACanada≈1 in 1.5M
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
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 249K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Penelle 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 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 567K | 11 | Penelle | 82 |
| BE Belgium | 47 | 1 in 249K | 47 | Penelle | 15 |
| CA Canada | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Penelle | 8 |
| US United States | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Penelle | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 47 | #27,377 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Penelle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 120 people named Penelle in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled penelle.
- Where is Penelle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Penelle is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 249 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Penelle?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 47 people named Penelle in 2008, about 1 in 249 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Penelle?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/penelleThe 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, “Penelle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.