Petitpierre
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ptipjɛʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petitpierre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 234K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 24K
- BEBelgium1 in 1.3M
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
345 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petitpierre 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 345 | 1 in 24K | 345 | Petitpierre | 35 |
| FR France | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 35 | Petitpierre | 116 |
| ES Spain | 25 | 1 in 2M | 25 | Petitpierre | 5 |
| IT Italy | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Petitpierre | 3 |
| US United States | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 24M | listed | Petitpierre | 19 |
| AU Australia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Petitpierre | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 9 | 1 in 1.3M | 9 | Petitpierre | 3 |
345 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)
- Henri Petitpierreb. 1772CH(1772-1829)
- Georges Frédéric Petitpierreb. 1791CHSwiss jurist and politician (1791-1883)
- Gonzalve Petitpierreb. 1805CH(1805-1870)
- Charles-Alfred Petitpierre-Steigerb. 1831CHSwiss politician (1831-1903)
- Fernand Petitpierreb. 1879CH(1879-1972)
- Max Petitpierreb. 1899CHmember of the Swiss Federal Council (1899-1994)
- Antoinette Petitpierreb. 1903(1903-2002)
- Petra Petitpierreb. 1905CH(1905-1959)
- Gilles Petitpierreb. 1940CHSwiss politician
- Anne Petitpierreb. 1943CHSwiss 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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 345 | #3,829 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 27 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 25 | #72,555 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 25 | #71,513 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 23 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Petitpierre?
- A machine transcription gives /ptipjɛʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Petitpierre have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 345 people named Petitpierre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petitpierre.
- Where is Petitpierre most common?
- Petitpierre is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Petitpierre?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 345 people named Petitpierre in 2024, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Petitpierre?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petitpierreThe 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, “Petitpierre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.