Pineau
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An alcoholic drink made from unfermented grape juice and cognac
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/pi.no/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Pineau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 156K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 388K
- CZCzechia1 in 2.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pineau itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 156K (inferred from the name graph)
857 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)An alcoholic drink made from unfermented grape juice and cognac.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pineau is read
(measured from records)Pineau 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.
- French80%
Nom de plusieurs localités dans l’ouest de la France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English17%
An alcoholic drink made from unfermented grape juice and cognac.
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)Pineau 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 857 | 1 in 388K | 864 | Pineau | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 128as Pinot | 1 in 1.7M | 128 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 71as Pinot | 1 in 165K | 71 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 69as Pinot | 1 in 725K | 69 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 54 | 1 in 156K | 54 | — | 1 |
857 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Nicolas Pineaub. 1684FRFrench designer (1684–1754)
- Christian Pineaub. 1904FRFrench Politician & Diplomat (1904-1995)
- Anna Gaëlb. 1943HUnot in their usual nameHungarian actress (1943–2022)
- Gisèle Pineaub. 1956FRFrench writer
- Patrick Pineaub. 1961FRFrench actor, comedian and theater director
- Franck Pineaub. 1963FRcyclist
- Joëlle Pineaub. 1974CACanadian computer scientist
- Denis Pineau-Valencienneb. 1975FRFrench film producer
- Jérôme Pineaub. 1980FRroad bicycle racer
- Allison Pineaub. 1989FRFrench handball player (1989-)
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 864 | #29,195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 857 | #27,974 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 808 | #27,945 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 54 | #17,560 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 30 | #36,882 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 28 | #66,626 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 28 | #65,950 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Pineau mean, and where does it come from?
- An alcoholic drink made from unfermented grape juice and cognac. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pineau?
- In French /pi.no/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Pineau have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 857 people named Pineau, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pineau.
- Where is Pineau most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pineau is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 156 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pineau?
- In the United States, the national register counted 857 people named Pineau in 2010, about 1 in 388 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/pineauThe 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, “Pineau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.