Prunelle
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: sloe (small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pʁynɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Prunelle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 189K(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 12K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 70K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sloe (small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Prunelle is read(measured from records)
Prunelle 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%
sloe (small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.8%
a kind of small and very acid French plum, especially when stoned and dried, from Prunus spinosa (blackthorn, sloe).
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Prunelle 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Prunelle | 9 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Prunelle | 3 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Prunelle | 2 |
| FR France | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 189K | 14 | Prunelle | 128 |
| BE Belgium | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 547K | — | Prunelle | 7 |
| GA Gabon | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 3 | — | 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); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)
- Victor Prunelleb. 1777FRFrench physician and politician
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 3 | #93 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Prunelle mean, and where does it come from?
- sloe (small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Prunelle?
- A machine transcription gives /pʁynɛl/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Prunelle a male or female name?
- Prunelle is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Prunelle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Prunelle in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prunelle.
- How common is the name Prunelle?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2,200 people in Côte d’Ivoire have Prunelle as their first given name, about 1 in 12 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/prunelleThe 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, “Prunelle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.