Piquer

surname · Latin script

Meaning: to prick; to sting

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 17K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 194K
  • ARArgentina1 in 337K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

2,906 people

Sources
128 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

to prick; to sting

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Piquer 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 Piquer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain2,9061 in 17K2.9KPiquer107
FR France≈350 est.≈1 in 194K45Piquer128
AR Argentina1351 in 337K135Piquer25
VE Venezuela≈41 est.≈1 in 690K—Piquer6
BE Belgium331 in 355K33Piquer6
UY Uruguay≈7 est.≈1 in 519K—Piquer4

2,906 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Piquer is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Pïqùer, Piquér

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Piquér

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)

Piquer 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 English, One who piques.

    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)

1700180019002000Andrés Piquer, b. 1711José Felipe Parra, b. 1826Concha Piquer, b. 1906Ismael Merlo, b. 1918Carlos Robles Piquer, b. 1925Concha Márquez Piquer, b. 1945Gary Piquer, b. 1959Iu Forn i Piquer, b. 1962Eva Piquer i Vinent, b. 1969Yann Piquer, b. 2000

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)

FormalEstimado/a Piquer,Dear Piquer, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Piquer,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Piquer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.9K#1,769
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.9K#1,769
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196158—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194157—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197147—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192146—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199145—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195145—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193143—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198140—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200833#34,870

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Piquer mean, and where does it come from?
to prick; to sting Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Piquer?
A machine transcription gives /pjkeɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What are other forms of the name Piquer?
In the etymology graph, Picquer is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Piquer have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Piquer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled piquer.
Where is Piquer most common?
Piquer is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Piquer?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,906 people named Piquer, about 1 in 17 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, “Piquer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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