Páles
surname · Latin script
Páles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Herts. variant of Pale with post-medieval excrescent -s.
- BRBrazil1 in 273K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 368K
- HUHungary≈1 in 609K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 273K (inferred from the name graph)
776 people
Reference-verified
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pales in HU Hungary.
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)
Main GB Location (1881): Herts. variant of Pale with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Páles 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 | 776 | 1 in 273K | 776 | — | — |
| US United States | 174 | 1 in 1.9M | 174 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 136 | 1 in 368K | 136 | — | — |
| HU Hungary | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 609K | — | Pales | 13 |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
776 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
- Zsolt Pálesb. 1956HUHungarian mathematician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Páles mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Herts. variant of Pale with post-medieval excrescent -s. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Páles have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 776 people named Páles, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Páles most common?
- Páles is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 273 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Páles?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 776 people named Páles, about 1 in 273 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A1lesThe 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, “Páles”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.