Pilot History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
France

The Pilot surname comes from the Old French word "pilot," meaning a "stake," or "pile."

Early Origins of the Pilot family

The surname Pilot was first found in Burgundy (French: Bourgogne), an administrative and historical region of east-central France where they held a family seat at Chantrans, and this main stem of the family became a representative of the Bourgogne aristocracy.

Some of the family were found in in Brittany, where the Pillets were Lords of Hericzonnais descended from Pierre, ennobled in 1435, father of Jean, Secretary of the duke.

Early History of the Pilot family

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Pilot Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Pilot, Pilott, Pilotte, Pillot, Pillott, Pillotte, Pillat, Pilat, Pillate, Pilett, Pilet, Pilette, Pillet, Pillett, Pillette, Piliot, Pilou, Pilote, Piliote, Pilioux, Pilliot, Pillod, Pylot, Pylott, Pylotte, Pyllot, Pyllott and many more.

Early Notables of the Pilot family

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Pilot Ranking

In France, the name Pilot is the 8,116^th most popular surname with an estimated 1,000 - 1,500 people with that name. 1

Pilot migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Pilot Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

George Pilot, aged 24, who landed in San Francisco, California in 1868 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Pilot (post 1700) +

Morris Pilot, American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, 1956 3
Marian Pilot (1936-2024), Polish writer, poet, journalist and screenwriter
Louis Pilot (1940-2016), Luxembourgian football player and manager

Citations +

http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, January 15) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html