Pistolet
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: gun, pistol
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pistolet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 14Mas Пістолет(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 44Mas Пистолет
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pistolet itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14M (inferred from the name graph)
≈3 named Пістолет, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ukraine, est., as Пістолет
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Пістолет in UA Ukraine and Пистолет in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
gun, pistol
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pistolet is read(measured from records)
Pistolet 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.
- French89%
gun, pistol
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.2%
A small pistol.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Pistolet 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Пістолет | 5 |
| RU Russia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 44M | — | Пистолет | 13 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Pistolet | 4 |
| FR France | — | — | 35 | — | — |
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). 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)
Pistolet 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 Dutch, a type of small round bread bun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, pistol, handgun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Walloon, pistol
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, PISTOLÉT, pistolete, s. n. 1. Armă de foc portativă, semiautomată, scurtă și ușoară, care permite tragerea cu o singură mână. 2. Florar (de desenat).
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pistolet mean, and where does it come from?
- gun, pistol Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pistolet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3 people named Пістолет in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Pistolet?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3 people in Ukraine have Пістолет as their first surname, about 1 in 14 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Pistolet?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pistoletThe 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, “Pistolet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.