Puce
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pjˈuːs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Puce is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 118K
- ITItaly≈1 in 128K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈490 people, est.
Reference-verified
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
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Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Puce is read(measured from records)
Puce is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- English22%
A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Latvian15%
Virsmas apstrāde, uzlabošana
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Greznošanās
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Apmetums
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
- Italian13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Puce in Italian.
- Spanish12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Puce in Spanish.
- Serbo-Croatian11%
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as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
1° gumb, dugme, botun, 2° gornji nišan u pušci, 3° vinova jagoda
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
- French7.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Puce in French.
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)
Puce 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 128K | listed | — | 3 |
| LV Latvia | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Puce | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 71 | 1 in 118K | 71 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | listed | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 18 | 1 in 235K | 18 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 8 | 1 in 683K | 8 | — | — |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the xinhua-italian-manual register; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
- Voldemārs Pūceb. 1906LVLatvian and Soviet film director (1906-1981)
- George Puceb. 1940LVCanadian discus thrower and shot putter (born 1940)
- Valts Pūceb. 1962LVLatvian composer
- Juris Pūceb. 1980LVLatvian politician and economist
- Valters Pūceb. 1985LVLatvian cellist, visual artists
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 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 71 | #14,356 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 18 | #24,126 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 17 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #61,510 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Puce come from?
- button Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Puce?
- In the etymology graph, Pulga is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Puce?
- A machine transcription gives /pjˈuːs/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Puce mean?
- In English, A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
- In which country does Puce have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 486 people named Puce in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Puce?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 71 people named Puce in 2024, about 1 in 118 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/puceThe 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, “Puce”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.