Pillet
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably a diminutive of OE Pīla, or from Fr Pillet; earliest attestation Thomas Pilet 12th DC (L)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pijɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pillet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 23K
- BEBelgium1 in 53K
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
- 252 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
probably a diminutive of OE Pīla, or from Fr Pillet; earliest attestation Thomas Pilet 12th DC (L)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pillet 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 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 556 | Pillet | 252 |
| CH Switzerland | 358 | 1 in 23K | 358 | Pillet | 32 |
| BE Belgium | 221 | 1 in 53K | 221 | Pillet | 24 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | listed | Pillet | 76 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 722K | — | Pillet | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 100K | listed | — | 3 |
| LU Luxembourg | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Pillet | 6 |
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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pillet is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, definite singular of pill
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, past participle of pille
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, rascal, scamp
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Léon Pilletb. 1803FRFrench journalist and opera company manager
- Alexis Pillet-Willb. 1805FRFrench private banker (1805–1871)
- Maurice Pilletb. 1881FRFrench archaeologist and egyptologist (1881–1964)
- Paul Pilletb. 1907FRFrench politician (1907–2002)
- Edgard Pilletb. 1912FRFrench painter (1912-1996)
- Yves Pilletb. 1939FRFrench politician (1939–2024)
- Marie Pilletb. 1941FRFrench actress (1941-2009)
- Didier Pilletb. 1948FRFrench journalist
- François Pilletb. 1950FRFrench politician and lawyer
- Julien Pilletb. 1977FRfencer
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 782 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 698 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 653 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 651 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 648 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 624 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 556 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 533 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 520 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 410 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 358 | #3,687 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 350 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Pillet mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a diminutive of OE Pīla, or from Fr Pillet; earliest attestation Thomas Pilet 12th DC (L) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Pillet?
- A machine transcription gives /pijɛ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Pillet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Pillet in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pillet.
- How common is the name Pillet?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 358 people named Pillet in 2024, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pilletThe 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, “Pillet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.