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The Pellegrin surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,080 people carried this name — #14,374 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 140,800 people counted. That is up 8% from 1,931 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Pellegrin surname

A French surname from Occitan.

Borrowed from Occitan [Term?]. Most prevalent in Bouches-du-Rhône.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Pellegrin» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 1,942 people named Pellegrin.

65 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 68 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 65
Bouches-du-Rhône 403
Hautes-Alpes 237
Alpes-Maritimes 214
Vaucluse 155
Var 123
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence 89
Drôme 83
Isère 58

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 63 people named Pellegrin live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Córdoba.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Córdoba 34
Santa Fe 17
Buenos Aires Province 12

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

29 people named Pellegrin live in Switzerland.

They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Geneva 13
Thurgau 7
Ticino 6
Vaud 3

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In print

Pellegrin in American newspapers,
1897–1910.

Newspaper page from The Bourbon News carrying the name Pellegrin
The Bourbon News 1910-11-15
Newspaper page from The Wenatchee Daily World carrying the name Pellegrin
The Wenatchee Daily World 1910-08-30
Newspaper page from The Houma Courier carrying the name Pellegrin
The Houma Courier 1897-03-13

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,875 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Pellegrin,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Raul Alejandro Pellegrin Friedmann d. 1988 · engineer
  • Claude-Mathieu Pellegrin 1682–1763 · composer
  • Gabriel Pellegrin 1713–1788 · military personnel
  • Joseph Pellegrin de Millon 1759–1832 · military officer
  • Louis Antonin Victor Pellegrin 1830–1894 · painter
  • Jacques Pellegrin 1873–1944 · zoologist

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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