Pierrot
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: a diminutive of the male given name Pierre (Pierre, "Peter")
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pierrot is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 76K
- NLNetherlands1 in 455K
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
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 76K (inferred from the name graph)
325 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit; a popular choice for a masquerade costume.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pierrot is read(measured from records)
Pierrot is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French79%
a diminutive of the male given name Pierre (Pierre, "Peter")
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Diminutif de Pierre, du latin Petrus « rocher »; fête de la Saint-Pierre.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- English12%
A character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit; a popular choice for a masquerade costume.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
French pantomine character
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pierrot 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 | 325 | 1 in 1M | 407 | Pierrot | 129 |
| BR Brazil | 166 | 1 in 1.3M | 166 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 154 | 1 in 76K | 154 | Pierrot | 21 |
| AR Argentina | 55 | 1 in 827K | 55 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 38 | 1 in 455K | 38 | Pierrot | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | Pierrot | 5 |
325 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pierrot is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, a person dressed in a Pierrot costume
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, 1. kazal. lice iz francuske pantomime 2. (pierrot) vrsta određene krabuljne odjeće (bijelo ili crno odijelo s crnom ili bijelom dugmadi)
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean-Louis Pierrotb. 1761HTPresident of Haiti (1761-1857) and husband of Cécile Fatiman
- Philogène Pierrotb. 1835botanist (1835-1896)
- Raymond Bernard Pierrotb. 1915botanist
- Frédéric Pierrotb. 1960FRFrench actor (born 1960)
- François Pierrotb. 1961FRFrench roboticist
- Christine Pierrotb. 1968researcher
- Théo Pierrotb. 1994FRFrench footballer
- Emmanuelle Pierrotb. 1994CACanadian writer from Quebec
- Frantzdy Pierrotb. 1995HTHaitian association footballer
- François PierrotFRFrench 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 407 | #54,637 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 325 | #61,745 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 262 | #69,854 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 166 | #42,753 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 154 | #10,697 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 55 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 38 | #36,363 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 17 | #41,155 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Pierrot come from?
- A character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit; a popular choice for a masquerade costume. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Pierrot mean?
- In French, a diminutive of the male given name Pierre (Pierre, "Peter")
- What are other forms of the name Pierrot?
- In the etymology graph, Peers and Petruchio are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pierrot have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 325 people named Pierrot, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pierrot.
- Where is Pierrot most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pierrot is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 76 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pierrot?
- In the United States, the national register counted 325 people named Pierrot in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pierrotThe 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, “Pierrot”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.