Philidor
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname of historical usage
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Philidor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M(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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1M (inferred from the name graph)
107 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname of historical usage.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Philidor 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 107 | 1 in 3.1M | 107 | Philidor | 24 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Philidor | 51 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Philidor | 4 |
| HT Haiti | — | — | — | Philidor | 2 |
107 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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)
- André Danican Philidorb. 1652FRFrench oboist and composer
- Anne Danican Philidorb. 1681FRearly 18th century French composer
- François-André Danican Philidorb. 1726FRFrench composer and chess player (1726-1795)
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 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 107 | #152,628 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Philidor mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname of historical usage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Philidor have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 107 people named Philidor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled philidor.
- Where is Philidor most common?
- Philidor is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Philidor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 107 people named Philidor in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/philidorThe 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, “Philidor”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.