Pirat
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pirat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 99K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 94K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 430K
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
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 94K (inferred from the name graph)
≈680 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pirat 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.
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Pirat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In vo, robbery at sea, including both piracy and privateering
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, pirate (a criminal who plunders at sea)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, pirate (one who plunders at sea)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, pirate; plunderer at sea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, PIRÁT, pirați, s. m. Persoană care se îndeletnicește cu pirateria, care comite acte de piraterie; hoț de mare, corsar. ♦ Persoană care comite infracțiunea de piraterie aeriană. ♦ Fig. Individ fără scrupule, care se îmbogățește prin jaf, tâlhărie etc.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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-Paul Piratb. 1947FRFrench politician
- Olivier Piratb. 1968FRFrench 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 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 125 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 117 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 114 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 104 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 104 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 100 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 90 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 75 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 74 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 49 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 10 | #70,817 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Pirat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 682 people named Pirat in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pirat.
- How common is the name Pirat?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 10 people named Pirat in 2008, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/piratThe 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, “Pirat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.