Terrien
surname · Latin script
Meaning: land, earth
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Terrien is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
- CACanada
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)land, earth
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Terrien is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, De l’ancien français terrien « propriétaire d’une terre agricole ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In fro, earth (made of mud, dirt, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, terrien ; profane
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)- Jean Terrienb. 1766FRmilitary officer, born 1766
- Christoll Terrienb. 1806FRFrench translator and teacher
- Jean-Baptiste Terrienb. 1832FRFrench theologian (1832-1903)
- Albert Terrien de Lacouperieb. 1844GBsinologist (1844-1894)
- Félix Terrienb. 1872FRFrench ophtalmologist
- Jean Terrienb. 1907FRFrench physicist
- Samuel Lucien Terrienb. 1911FRfrench-American Protestant theologian and biblical scholar
- Brigitte Ayraultb. 1950FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician
- Gérard Terrienb. 1954FRFrench official
- David Terrienb. 1976FRFrench racing driver
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 704 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 694 | #32,994 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 691 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 679 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 677 | #32,129 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 649 | #36,981 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 617 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 588 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 527 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 523 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 434 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 346 | — |
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 Terrien mean, and where does it come from?
- land, earth Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Terrien have the most bearers?
- Terrien is most frequently recorded in France.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/terrienThe 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, “Terrien”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.