Pre
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Pre is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a meadow, OF pred (L pratum; the fem. forms are from LL prata, originally the pi. of this word), or habitation name from any of the numerous minor places named with this word.
- FRFrance≈1 in 79K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 240Kfew records
- DEGermany≈1 in 360Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
≈860 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)a meadow, OF pred (L pratum; the fem. forms are from LL prata, originally the pi. of this word), or habitation name from any of the numerous minor places named with this word. Vars.: Pree, Prey, Prez; Lapree, Lapraye; Dupre, Despres, Desprez. Cogns.: Prov.: Pra(t)(z), Pra(t)x, Prats, Prade; Lapraz, Laprade; Duprat, De(l)prat, Delaprade. It.: Prati, (Dal) Prato, Del Prato, Prata; Prado, Prada (N Italy); (Dal) Pra (Venetia). Sp.: Prado(s), Prada. Cat.: Prat(s), Prada(s), Prades. Dims.: Fr.: Preau(x), Pr(e)el. Prov.: Pradeau(x), Pradel(le), (De) Lapradelle, Pradine, Prad(ill)on, Pradoux. It.: Pratelli, Pratella, Pradel(la), Pradetto, Pratolini, Pradolin. Sp.: Pradillo.
Cited for this meaning 2
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pre is found
(measured from records)Pre 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 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 86 | — | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Pre | 11 |
| DE Germany | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 356K | — | Pre | 18 |
| BR Brazil | 162 | 1 in 1.3M | 162 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | listed | Pre | 111 |
| AR Argentina | 47 | 1 in 968K | 47 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 2 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)- Suneeta Khareb. 1966CAnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Franck Preb. 1985FRFrench politician
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pre mean?
- Recorded meaning: a meadow, OF pred (L pratum; the fem. forms are from LL prata, originally the pi. of this word), or habitation name from any of the numerous minor places named with this word.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pre?
- Mondonomo estimates about 864 people named Pre in France, more than in any other country we hold. After it come South Africa, Germany, Brazil and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Pre?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 162 people named Pre, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/preThe 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, “Pre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.