Piron
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/piʀɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Piron is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Belgium it is the 84th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic пиронъ (pironŭ), from Greek πιρούνι (piroúni), from Ancient Greek περόνη (perónē, “pin”).
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 18K
- LULuxembourg≈1 in 13K
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
- 238 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old Church Slavonicпиронъpironŭ(measured from records)
- Greekπιρούνιpiroúni(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekπερόνηperónē“pin”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic пиронъ (pironŭ), from Greek πιρούνι (piroúni), from Ancient Greek περόνη (perónē, “pin”).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Piron 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 | 507 | Piron | 238 |
| BE Belgium | #84 | 3,013 | 1 in 3.9K | 3K | Piron | 86 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Piron | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | Piron | 10 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 146K | listed | Piron | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 52 | 1 in 162K | 52 | Piron | 14 |
| LU Luxembourg | #298 | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Piron | 15 |
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); the xinhua-italian-manual 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Piron is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, accusative singular of piro
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, big nail, holdfast
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lad, fork
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, PIRÓN, piroane, s. n. Cui (de oțel) lung și gros, curbat (în unghi drept) la unul din capete și folosit la îmbinarea pieselor unei construcții de lemn, la fixarea unui obiect greu pe perete etc.; p. gener. cui mare. ◊ Expr. (Fam.) A face (la) piroane (și cuie) = a clănțăni din dinți din cauza frigului; a dârdâi. (Fam.) A tăia (la) piroane = a spune minciuni.
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)
- Aimé Pironb. 1640FRFrench poet
- Alexis Pironb. 1689FRFrench poet
- Armand J. Pironb. 1888USAmerican musician (1888–1943)
- Jean-Baptiste Pironb. 1896BEBelgian military commander (1896–1974)
- Maurice Pironb. 1914BEBelgian academic (1914–1986)
- Claude Pironb. 1931CHSwiss translator and Esperantist (1931-2008)
- Constantin Pironb. 1932BEphysicist
- Michel Pironb. 1943FRFrench politician
- Luc Pironb. 1952BEBelgian artist (born 1952)
- Florence Pironb. 1966CAuniversity professor
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3K | #283 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 2.7K | #310 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 704 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 666 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 607 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 590 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 521 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 516 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 507 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 473 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 376 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 330 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Piron mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic пиронъ (pironŭ), from Greek πιρούνι (piroúni), from Ancient Greek περόνη (perónē, “pin”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Piron?
- A machine transcription gives /piʀɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Piron have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Piron in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled piron.
- Where is Piron most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Piron is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 3.9 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Piron?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 3,013 people named Piron in 2008, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Piron compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Piron is the 84th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pironThe 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, “Piron” — the 84th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.