Pichard
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pichard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 34K
- DKDenmark1 in 217K
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
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pichard 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 | #873 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 753 | Pichard | 239 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Pichard | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 247 | 1 in 34K | 247 | Pichard | 34 |
| US United States | — | 108 | 1 in 3.1M | 198 | Pichard | 89 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 859K | — | Pichard | 16 |
| DK Denmark | — | 27 | 1 in 217K | 27 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 492K | — | Pichard | 11 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Adrien Pichardb. 1790CHSwiss engineer (1790–1841)
- René Pichard du Pageb. 1886FRFrench historian
- Jean Pichardb. 1905FRFrench painter, drawer, entraver and lithographer
- Raymond Pichardb. 1913FRFrench catholic priest (1913-1992)
- Georges Pichardb. 1920FRFrench comic book artist (1920–2003)
- Chardb. 1941FRnot in their usual nameFrench cartoonist
- Jean-Pierre Pichardb. 1945FRFrench director of a regional cultural festival (1945–2021)
- Marie-Noëlle Pichardb. 1955FRFrench comics artist
- Louise Pichard-Bertauxb. 1962FRFrench sociologist and orientalist
- Tristan Pichardb. 1975FRFrench writer
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 968 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 957 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 884 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 852 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 792 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 775 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 753 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 718 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 641 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 599 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 470 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 247 | #5,227 |
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
- In which country does Pichard have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Pichard in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pichard.
- How common is the name Pichard?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 247 people named Pichard in 2024, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Pichard compared with other names?
- In France, Pichard is the 873rd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pichard?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pichardThe 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, “Pichard” — the 873rd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.