Petillon
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/ptijɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petillon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 126K(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)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 126K (inferred from the name graph)
93 people, 2008
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.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Petillon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 93 | 1 in 126K | 93 | Petillon | 8 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Petillon | 45 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Petillon | 24 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | Petillon | 7 |
| FR France | — | — | 144 | Petillon | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | — | Petillon | 4 |
93 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hanns Petillonb. 1943German educationalist and university lecturer
- Dominique Petillonb. 1959FRFrench 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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 211 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 208 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 196 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 192 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 174 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 169 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 144 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 144 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 143 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 100 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 93 | #16,472 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 80 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Petillon?
- A machine transcription gives /ptijɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Petillon have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 93 people named Petillon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petillon.
- Where is Petillon most common?
- Petillon is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 126 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Petillon?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 93 people named Petillon in 2008, 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/petillonThe 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, “Petillon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.