Pessin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma reduzida de Pessini; pode ser variante regional de Pezzin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpɛsɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pessin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 956K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 126K
- FRFrance≈1 in 176K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- 1 in 126K (inferred from the name graph)
1,686 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma reduzida de Pessini; pode ser variante regional de Pezzin.
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pessin 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 | 1,686 | 1 in 126K | 1.7K | — | 2 |
| FR France | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 176K | 46 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 348 | 1 in 956K | 348 | Pessin | 152 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 1000K | — | Pessin | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 617K | — | Pessin | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Pessin | 1 |
| BE Belgium | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 643K | — | Pessin | 1 |
1,686 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Marc Pessinb. 1933FRFrench engraver, publisher, and designer
- Yakov B. Pesinb. 1946RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician
- Alain Pessinb. 1949FRFrench sociologist (1949-2005)
- Denis Pessinb. 1951FRFrench drawer
- Christian Pesinb. 1957FRnot in their usual nameFrench association football player
- Valera Pesinb. 1963BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian painter
- Claire Pessin-GarricFrench politician
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #5,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 348 | #58,337 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 327 | #65,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 323 | #58,692 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 74 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 59 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 46 | — |
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 Pessin mean, and where does it come from?
- forma reduzida de Pessini; pode ser variante regional de Pezzin. Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Pessin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɛsɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pessin have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Pessin, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pessin most common?
- Pessin is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 126 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pessin?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,686 people named Pessin, about 1 in 126 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pessinThe 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, “Pessin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.