Perrault
surname · Latin script
Meaning: dérivé de Pierre
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Perrault is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 2.4Kas Ferro
- PTPortugal≈1 in 3.4Kas Ferro
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Perrault 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
36,022 named Ferro
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ferro in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, FR France and 3 more.
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)
dérivé de Pierre
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
How Perrault is read(measured from records)
Perrault is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English56%
Charles, French poet, author offairy
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
tales
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French35%
dérivé de Pierre
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Perrault 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #323 | 36,022as Ferro | 1 in 5.9K | 36K | Ferro | 159 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | listed | Ferro | 92 |
| US United States | — | 7,273as Ferro | 1 in 46K | 7.3K | Perrault | 296 |
| AR Argentina | #546 | 7,232as Ferro | 1 in 6.3K | 7.2K | Ferro | 100 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 2.2K | Ferro | 210 |
| PT Portugal | #243 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Ferro | 97 |
| UY Uruguay | #359 | 1,426as Ferro | 1 in 2.4K | 1.4K | Ferro | 44 |
36,022 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pierre Perraultb. 1611FRhydrologist
- Nicolas Perraultb. 1611FRFrench theologian
- Claude Perraultb. 1613FRFrench architect and doctor of medicine (1613–1688)
- Charles Perraultb. 1628FRFrench author (1628-1703)
- Henri-Maurice Perraultb. 1828CACanadian architect (1828-1903)
- Léon Bazile Perraultb. 1832FRFrench painter (1832-1908)
- Maurice Perraultb. 1857CACanadian politician and architect
- Pierre Perraultb. 1927CAFilm director, playright and screenwriter of Québec (1927–1999)
- Gilles Perraultb. 1931FRFrench writer and journalist (1931–2023)
- Dominique Perraultb. 1953FRFrench architect (born 1953)
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)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,618 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,095 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,563 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 744 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 683 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 648 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 620 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 602 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 591 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 532 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 523 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 440 | — |
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 Perrault mean, and where does it come from?
- dérivé de Pierre Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- In which country does Perrault have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Ferro, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Perrault?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 36,022 people named Ferro, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Perrault compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Perrault is the 323rd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Perrault?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/perraultThe 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, “Perrault” — the 323rd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.