Pannier Family Crest and Last Name Background

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Pannier, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

In the records

Pannier shows up clearly in national surname statistics. About 463 people in the United States were recorded as Pannier in 2010, placing it 46,037 on the national list. INSEE counts 3,375 people born in France with the Pannier surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1951–1960.

We do not guess at meanings: where the dictionaries are silent on Pannier, the family's own records come first.

Want more than a summary? See the Pannier family name pack.