Pazos
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pasos/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pazos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 4.7K
- PEPeru≈1 in 7.5K
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 Pazos 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
10,709 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pazos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #600 | 10,709 | 1 in 4.7K | 11K | Pazos | 161 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Pazos | 68 |
| AR Argentina | #888 | 4,146 | 1 in 11K | 4.1K | Pazos | 87 |
| UY Uruguay | #261 | 1,867 | 1 in 1.8K | 1.9K | Pazos | 47 |
| US United States | — | 1,460 | 1 in 228K | 1.5K | Pazos | 223 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 704as Pasos | 1 in 7.2K | 704 | — | 19 |
10,709 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Pazos 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 io, future of pazar
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)
- Vicente Pazos Kankib. 1779BOBolivian journalist and priest (1779-1852)
- José Robles Pazosb. 1897ESSpanish author (1897-1937)
- Felipe Pazosb. 1912CUCuban economist
- Manuel Pazosb. 1930ESSpanish association football player (1930-2019)
- Cándido Pazosb. 1943ESSpanish sculptor (1943- )
- Andrés Pazosb. 1945ESUruguayan actor (1945–2010)
- Luis Pazosb. 1947MXMexican lawyer
- Sergio Pazosb. 1965ESSpanish actor and presenter
- Alex Geijob. 1982ESnot in their usual nameSpanish Swiss-born professional footballer
- James Pazosb. 1991USAmerican baseball player
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 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 11K | #515 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11K | #515 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 4.1K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,277 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,778 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #21,192 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 236 | #910 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Pazos?
- A machine transcription gives /pasos/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Pazos have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Pazos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pazos.
- Where is Pazos most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pazos is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pazos?
- In Spain, the national register counted 10,709 people named Pazos, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Pazos compared with other names?
- In Spain, Pazos is the 600th most common surname of 395,154 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/pazosThe 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, “Pazos” — the 600th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.