Paez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A Native American people inhabiting the southwestern highlands of Colombia
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/paes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paez 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.
- 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 Paez 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)
Locally spelled 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)
A Native American people inhabiting the southwestern highlands of Colombia.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paez 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)
Paez is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Pelagio
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, lang., people, Colombia, Panama
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 Pedraza y Páezb. 1877ESSpanish translator
- Richard Paezb. 1947USAmerican judge
- Oliver De La Trinidad Soto Paezb. 1974VEVenezuelan chess player
- Melina Paezb. 1975USAmerican actress
- Carlos Paesb. 1978HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer
- David Allendeb. 1986CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Jhoan Paezb. 1986VEcyclist
- Lucy Paezb. 2008MXMexican actress
- Eulogio Paez PaezESSpanish politician
- Orlando PaezCUcyclist
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)
Attested in 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 79K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 13K | #431 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13K | #431 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.6K | #3,909 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 32 | #84 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Paez mean, and where does it come from?
- A Native American people inhabiting the southwestern highlands of Colombia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paez?
- A machine transcription gives /paes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Paez 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 Paez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paez is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 579 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Paez?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 78,592 people named Paez, about 1 in 579 residents.
- How common is Paez compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Paez 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/paezThe 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, “Paez” — the 84th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.