Pinet

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Le Pinet, nom de plusieurs localités à travers la France

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/pinɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pinet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 61K
  • CACanada≈1 in 80K

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)

≈3,600 people, est.

Sources
233 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in French

Le Pinet, nom de plusieurs localités à travers la France.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pinet 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.

Where Pinet is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈3,600 est.≈1 in 19K387Pinet233
CA Canada≈470 est.≈1 in 80K—Pinet76
US United States3741 in 889K441Pinet115
IT Italy≈310 est.≈1 in 200K—Pinet2
BE Belgium1911 in 61K191Pinet26
CH Switzerland191 in 442K19Pinet3

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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pinet is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Pinét

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pinét

  • Ukrainian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Belgium, Canada

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Пинет

  • Thai given name103 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written พิเนตร, พเนตร, พิเนต, ผาเนตร, ปเนต

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pinet is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Basque, "(BN-mix), valet de bastoina aux cartes" Lh .

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

1700180019002000Mlle Molé, b. 1740Jacques Pinet, b. 1754François Pinet, b. 1817Charles Pinet, b. 1867Theodor Pinet, b. 1875Jeanne Pinet, b. 1914Jean Pinet, b. 1929Bernard Pinet, b. 1952

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Pinet, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Pinet
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941575—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951567—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961547—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971525—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921521—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931487—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901456—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981449—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020441#51,084
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911420—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991387—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010374#54,990

Reference works 2

  • 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

How do you pronounce Pinet?
A machine transcription gives /pinɛ/ (IPA) for French.
What does the name Pinet mean?
Recorded meaning: Le Pinet, nom de plusieurs localités à travers la France.
In which country does Pinet have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Pinet in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinet.
How common is the name Pinet?
In the United States, the national register counted 374 people named Pinet in 2010, about 1 in 889 thousand residents.

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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, “Pinet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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