Pint
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/paɪnt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pint is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English pinte, from Old French pinte, assumed from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure”), from Latin picta (“painted”), from Latin p.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 53K
- FIFinland1 in 164K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
655 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishpinte(measured from records)
- Old Frenchpinte(measured from records)
- Vulgar Latin*pincta“a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure”(measured from records)
- Latinpicta“painted”(measured from records)
- Latinpingō“paint”(measured from records)
From Middle English pinte, from Old French pinte, assumed from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure”), from Latin picta (“painted”), from Latin pingō (“paint”, verb). Doublet of pinto and Pinto.
Sources 3
- A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pint 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.
655 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Pint is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, pint, (glass of) beer
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In Hungarian, any of various old units of volume, often equivalent to about 1.4–1.6 litres
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, a glass of beer (usually 25 cl or 33cl, not an imperial pint)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, alternative form of pinto, an English or American pint
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, past participle of pine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, male member
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Valter Pintb. 1880EEEstonian lawyer and military personnel (1880-1934)
- Aleksander Pintb. 1910EEEstonian educationalist (1910-1984)
- Olvi Pintb. 1914EEEstonian cleric (1914-1997)
- Arsène Pintb. 1933BEBelgian modern pentathlete and founder of Group Diane
- Raul Pintb. 1968EEEstonian trustee in bankruptcy (born 1968)
- Riley Pintb. 1997USAmerican baseball player (1997-)
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 685 | #35,388 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 655 | #34,539 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 582 | #36,328 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 221 | #7,659 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 205 | #8,771 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 108 | #59,814 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 67 | #1,346 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 53 | #1,770 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 34 | #31,679 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Pint?
- A machine transcription gives /paɪnt/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Pint mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English pinte, from Old French pinte, assumed from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure”), from Latin picta (“painted”), from Latin p… Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- What are other forms of the name Pint?
- In the etymology graph, Pinta and Pintle are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pint have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 655 people named Pint, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pint.
- How common is the name Pint?
- In the United States, the national register counted 655 people named Pint in 2010, about 1 in 508 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pintThe 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, “Pint”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.