Páez
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/paeθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Páez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Argentina it is the 84th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From the former Medieval form Paaez, from Pelaiz. A patronymic surname, from Paio (“Pelagius”) or directly from Pelagio and the patronymic suffix -ez. Originally meaning "son/daughter of Pelagius".
- ARArgentina1 in 579(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 632
- PYParaguay≈1 in 700
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Páez itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- 1 in 579 (inferred from the name graph)
117,884 named Paes
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Paez in AR Argentina, VE Venezuela, BR Brazil and 3 more.
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)From the former Medieval form Paaez, from Pelaiz. A patronymic surname, from Paio (“Pelagius”) or directly from Pelagio and the patronymic suffix -ez. Originally meaning "son/daughter of Pelagius". Cognate of Spanish Peláez.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Páez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 117,884as Paes | 1 in 1.8K | 118K | Paez | 68 |
| AR Argentina | #84 | 78,592 | 1 in 579 | 79K | Paez | 122 |
| CO Colombia | #116 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 988 | 32 | Paez | 160 |
| VE Venezuela | #116 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 632 | — | Paez | 84 |
| ES Spain | #330 | 12,629 | 1 in 4K | 13K | Paez | 149 |
| PY Paraguay | #136 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 700 | — | Paez | 41 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 3,903 | 1 in 868 | 3.9K | Páez | 49 |
117,884 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname), counting the spelling paes. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Páez is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, a surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pedro Páezb. 1564ESSpanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia (1564-1622)
- José Antonio Páezb. 1790ESpresident of Venezuela (1790-1873)
- Federico Páezb. 1876ECPresident of Ecuador (1935 - 1937)
- Ramón Mifflinb. 1947PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer
- Richard Páezb. 1952VEVenezuelan footballer
- Fito Páezb. 1963ARArgentine musician
- Pepe Reinab. 1982ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Maxi Pereirab. 1984UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan association football player
- Gavib. 2004ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Kendry Páezb. 2007ECEcuadorian footballer
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 4 | #112 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Páez mean, and where does it come from?
- From the former Medieval form Paaez, from Pelaiz. A patronymic surname, from Paio (“Pelagius”) or directly from Pelagio and the patronymic suffix -ez. Originally meaning "son/daughter of Pelagius". Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Páez?
- A machine transcription gives /paeθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Páez have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 118 thousand people named Paes, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Páez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Páez is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 579 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Páez?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 78,592 people named Páez, about 1 in 579 residents.
- How common is Páez compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Páez is the 84th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A1ezThe 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, “Páez” — the 84th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.