Prieur
surname · Latin script
Meaning: prior
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pʁijœʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Prieur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 9.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- HTHaiti≈1 in 36K
- CACanada≈1 in 75K
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
- 266 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
prior
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Prieur 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 | #592 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 892 | Prieur | 266 |
| US United States | — | 648 | 1 in 513K | 667 | Prieur | 117 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Prieur | 78 |
| HT Haiti | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 36K | listed | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 282K | 25 | Prieur | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 36 | 1 in 233K | 36 | Prieur | 11 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | listed | — | — |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the ht-potomitan-names register. 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)
Prieur is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, de prieur « supérieur d’un couvent »; surnom ironique
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Barthélemy Prieurb. 1536FRFrench sculptor (1536–1611)
- Pierre-Louis Prieurb. 1756FRFrench lawyer (1756-1827)
- Jean Louis, the younger Prieurb. 1759FRFrench painter (1759-1795)
- Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernoisb. 1763FRFrench engineer and politician (1763–1832)
- Edmond Prieurb. 1881FRFrench politician (1881-1955)
- Jean Prieurb. 1914FRFrench author (1914–2016)
- Jérôme Prieurb. 1951FRFrench filmmaker and writer (born 1951)
- Philippe Prieurb. 1960FRFrench footballer
- Kid Locob. 1964FRnot in their usual nameFrench electronic musician, DJ, remixer and producer
- Benoît Prieurb. 1975FRFrench computing engineer
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 978 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 958 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 910 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 892 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 865 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 733 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 667 | #36,150 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 648 | #34,835 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Prieur mean, and where does it come from?
- prior Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Prieur?
- A machine transcription gives /pʁijœʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Prieur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Prieur in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prieur.
- How common is the name Prieur?
- In the United States, the national register counted 648 people named Prieur in 2010, about 1 in 513 thousand residents.
- How common is Prieur compared with other names?
- In France, Prieur is the 592nd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/prieurThe 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, “Prieur” — the 592nd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.