Dron
surname · Latin script
Meaning: drone (unmanned aerial vehicle)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʁɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dron is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 194K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 234K
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
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
drone (unmanned aerial vehicle)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dron 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 | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 106 | Dron | 168 |
| PL Poland | 197 | 1 in 194K | 100 | — | — |
| US United States | 188 | 1 in 1.8M | 210 | Dron | 23 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 513K | — | Dron | 8 |
| CA Canada | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 515K | — | Dron | 9 |
| BE Belgium | 32 | 1 in 366K | 32 | Dron | 7 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 6 | — | — |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Dron is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, drone (remotely controlled aircraft)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, An unmanned aerial vehicle; drone.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of drane
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lid, canoe
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Irish, right
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)
- Achille Dronb. 1830FRFrench physician (1830-1906)
- Elena Dronb. 1897ROMoldovan Romanian female engineer
- Dorin Dronb. 1920ROactor
- Gaston Dronb. 1924FROlympic cyclist (1924–2008)
- Sever Dronb. 1944RORomanian tennis player and coach
- Ion Dronb. 1948MDMoldovan philologist
- Dominique Dronb. 1960FRFrench engineer
- Yan Dronb. 1972FRactor and stuntman
- Petr Dronb. 1985RURussian curler
- Boris Dronb. 1988BEcyclist
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 26 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 210 | #93,627 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 188 | #96,799 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 176 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 176 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 164 | #101,654 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 151 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 149 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 137 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 122 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 107 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 106 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 102 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Dron mean, and where does it come from?
- drone (unmanned aerial vehicle) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dron?
- A machine transcription gives /dʁɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Dron have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 955 people named Dron in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dron.
- How common is the name Dron?
- In Poland, the national register counted 197 people named Dron in 2026, about 1 in 194 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/dronThe 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, “Dron”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.