Pinard
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: eval coin, so called because it bore the device of a pine cone (see Pine)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pinaʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pinard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 23K
- USUnited States1 in 193K
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
- 246 (measured from records)
- 1 in 758 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
eval coin, so called because it bore the device of a pine cone (see Pine). The name may have denoted someone who paid a rent of this amount; the term seems also to have been used as a derogatory term for a rich man or miser. P(e)agram, Peregrine. Dims.: It.: Pellegrinelli, Pellegrinetti, Pellegrinotti. Var.: Pinart. Piiipets see Philip Dims.: Pinardel, Pinardeau, Pinardon.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pinard is read(measured from records)
Pinard 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.
- French47%
eval coin, so called because it bore the device of a pine cone (see Pine). The name may have denoted someone who paid a rent of this amount; the term seems also to have been used as a derogatory term for a rich man or miser. P(e)agram, Peregrine. Dims.: It.: Pellegrinelli, Pellegrinetti, Pellegrinotti. Var.: Pinart. Piiipets see Philip Dims.: Pinardel, Pinardeau, Pinardon.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
plonk (cheap wine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Nom de plusieurs localités dans différentes régions de France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English45%
A surname from French originating in France.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Pinard 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 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 453 | Pinard | 246 |
| CN China | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Pinard | 1 |
| US United States | 1,721 | 1 in 193K | 1.7K | Pinard | 162 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Pinard | 118 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 74K | 60 | Pinard | 19 |
| DM Dominica | 98 | 1 in 758 | 98 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 5 | 1 in 11K | 5 | — | — |
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; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
- Ernest Pinardb. 1822FRFrench magistrate and politician
- Adolphe Pinardb. 1844FRFrench obstetrician (1844-1934)
- Joseph Albert Pinardb. 1878CACanadian politician (1878–1964)
- Sir Lancelotb. 1902TTnot in their usual nameTrinidad and Tobago calypsonian, actor (1902–2001)
- Roch Pinardb. 1910CACanadian politician (1910-1974)
- Evelyne Pinardb. 1923FRFrench javelin thrower (1923–2014)
- Joseph Pinardb. 1936FRFrench politician (born 1936)
- Yvon Pinardb. 1940CACanadian politician
- Éric Pinardb. 1968FRFrench ice hockey player
- Catherine Beauchemin-Pinardb. 1994CACanadian judoka
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,644 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,302 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,466 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 696 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 664 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 647 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 627 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 556 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 551 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 512 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 480 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 453 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Pinard mean, and where does it come from?
- eval coin, so called because it bore the device of a pine cone (see Pine). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Pinard?
- A machine transcription gives /pinaʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Pinard have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Pinard in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinard.
- Where is Pinard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pinard is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 758 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pinard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,721 people named Pinard in 2010, about 1 in 193 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pinardThe 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, “Pinard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.