Päez
surname · Latin script
Päez 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 Spanish Páez, from Galician (patronymic of Paio).
- 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 Päez 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)
- Sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- 1 in 579 (inferred from the name graph)
117,884 named Paes
recorded for this name
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 and Páez in UY Uruguay.
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 Spanish Páez, from Galician (patronymic of Paio).
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Päez 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Päez mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Páez, from Galician (patronymic of Paio). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Päez 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 Päez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Päez is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 579 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Päez?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 78,592 people named Päez, about 1 in 579 residents.
- How common is Päez compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Päez 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%A4ezThe 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, “Päez” — the 84th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.