Poussin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pullicmus, a deriv. of pullus; cf
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/pusɛ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Poussin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 533K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
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)
- Record sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)pullicmus, a deriv. of pullus; cf. Poule and Pullen), ap¬ parently denoting a small man. Var.: Pouchin. Dims.: Pous(s)ineau, Pouzinot, Poussinet. Pouteau see Poste Pouter see Peutherer Poutrel see Putterill Pouvereau see Power Pouzet see Puits
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Poussin 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 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 316 | Poussin | 225 |
| US United States | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 11M | listed | Poussin | 46 |
| BE Belgium | 22 | 1 in 533K | 22 | Poussin | 22 |
| CA Canada | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Poussin | 14 |
| IT Italy | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7M | — | Poussin | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | Poussin | 6 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 1 |
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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Poussin 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 French, pullictnus, a deriv. of pullus; cf. Poule and Pullen), apparently denoting a small man. Var.: Pouchin. Dims.: Pous(s)ineau, Pouzinot, Poussinet.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In French, chick (a young chicken)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Nicolas, French painter
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A chicken reared to be eaten at a few weeks of age.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, francuski slikar klasicizma; formirao se u dvorskoj maniri rokokoa; veći dio života proveo u Rimu; visoko stilizirani individualni način prikazivanja religioznih i klasično-mitoloških tema
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)- Nicolas Poussinb. 1594FRFrench painter (1594-1665)
- Pierre-Charles Poussinb. 1819FRFrench painter (1819-1904)
- Gérald Poussinb. 1946CHSwiss artist
- Maïté Poussinb. 1956FRFrench racecar driver
- Jean-Christophe Poussinb. 1958FRresearcher
- Alexandre Poussinb. 1970FRFrench writer and film director
- Sonia Poussinb. 1971FRFrench writer
- Gaëtan Poussinb. 1999FRFrench association football player
- Thomas PoussinFRFrench architect
- Claude PoussinFRFrench sculptor
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 485 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 436 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 400 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 373 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 349 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 343 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 339 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 316 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 300 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 239 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 172 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 22 | #44,761 |
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
- Where does the name Poussin come from?
- pullicmus, a deriv. of pullus; cf. Poule and Pullen), ap¬ parently denoting a small man. Var.: Pouchin. Dims.: Pous(s)ineau, Pouzinot, Poussinet. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Poussin?
- A machine transcription gives /pusɛ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Poussin mean?
- Recorded meaning: pullicmus, a deriv. of pullus; cf.
- In which country does Poussin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Poussin in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poussin.
- How common is the name Poussin?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 22 people named Poussin in 2008, about 1 in 533 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/poussinThe 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, “Poussin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.