Potiron
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pumpkin (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/pɔ.ti.ʁɔ̃/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Potiron is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
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)
- Record sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Potiron
- French:/pɔ.ti.ʁɔ̃/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)pumpkin
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Potiron is found
(measured from records)Potiron 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 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 221 | Potiron | 190 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | Potiron | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 409K | listed | — | 3 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 145M | — | Potiron | 8 |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | Potiron | 3 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hubert Potironb. 1953FRFrench politician
- Liliane Potironb. 1998MUMauritian athletics competitor
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Potiron mean, and where does it come from?
- pumpkin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Potiron?
- In French /pɔ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Potiron?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Potiron in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled potiron. After it come Spain, Switzerland, Estonia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Potiron?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7 people named Potiron, about 1 in 7.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/potironThe 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, “Potiron”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.