PetitJean
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Surname formed from petit + Jean, meaning 'little Jean'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pitidʒin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
PetitJean is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 6.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 9.3K
- USUnited States1 in 605K
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)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Surname formed from petit + Jean, meaning 'little Jean'.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
PetitJean 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 | #353 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | 1.2K | PetitJean | 273 |
| BE Belgium | #415 | 1,266 | 1 in 9.3K | 1.3K | PetitJean | 65 |
| US United States | — | 550 | 1 in 605K | 550 | PetitJean | 131 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | PetitJean | 3 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | PetitJean | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 137 | 1 in 61K | 137 | PetitJean | 22 |
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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Antonin d'Avrecourtb. 1807FRnot in their usual nameFrench playwright
- Bernard Petitjeanb. 1829FRFrench missionary to Japan (1829–1884)
- Edmond Marie Petitjeanb. 1844FRFrench painter (1844-1925)
- Hippolyte Petitjeanb. 1854FRpainter (1854-1929)
- Marie Alexandrine Beckerb. 1879BEnot in their usual nameBelgian serial killer (1879–1942)
- Armand Petitjeanb. 1913FRFrench writer (1913-2003)
- Dave Petitjeanb. 1928USAmerican actor (1928-2013)
- Frédéric Petitjeanb. 1969FRFrench screenwriter
- Sibyle Veilb. 1977FRnot in their usual nameFrench official
- Mathilde-Amivi Petitjeanb. 1994TGTogolese cross-country skier
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 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.4K | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.3K | #979 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1.2K | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.1K | #1,092 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 964 | — |
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
- What does the name PetitJean mean, and where does it come from?
- Surname formed from petit + Jean, meaning 'little Jean'. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How do you pronounce PetitJean?
- A machine transcription gives /pitidʒin/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does PetitJean have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10.0 thousand people named PetitJean in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled PetitJean.
- How common is the name PetitJean?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,266 people named PetitJean in 2008, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
- How common is PetitJean compared with other names?
- In France, PetitJean is the 353rd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petitjeanThe 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, “PetitJean” — the 353rd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.