Poissonnier

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: fishmonger (someone who sells fish)

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

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

Poissonnier is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance
  • BEBelgium
  • KRSouth Korea

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

In a large commercial kitchen, a cook tasked with preparing and cooking (and possibly selecting) fish and fish dishes.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Poissonnier is read(measured from records)

Poissonnier 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.

  • French84%

    fishmonger (someone who sells fish)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English12%

    In a large commercial kitchen, a cook tasked with preparing and cooking (and possibly selecting) fish and fish dishes.

    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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Pierre Isaac Poissonnier, b. 1720Bruno Poissonnier, b. 1962Marie Poissonnier, b. 1979

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 Poissonnier, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Poissonnier
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008213#7,949
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951209—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961204—
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—203#8,855
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971196—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941195—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981175—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991167—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921155—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931144—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901140—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911104—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Poissonnier come from?
In a large commercial kitchen, a cook tasked with preparing and cooking (and possibly selecting) fish and fish dishes. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Poissonnier?
A machine transcription gives /pwasɔnje/ (IPA) for French.
What does the name Poissonnier mean?
In French, fishmonger (someone who sells fish)
In which country does Poissonnier have the most bearers?
Poissonnier is most frequently recorded in France.

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About this data

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Poissonnier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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