Peça
surname · Latin script
Meaning: piece, spare part, play
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Peça is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 52K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 62K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 112K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
≈440 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pecaj in US United States.
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)
piece, spare part, play
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peça 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.
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Peça is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, piece (part of a larger whole)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, reintegrationist spelling of peza
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, piece (a part of something)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Peça mean, and where does it come from?
- piece, spare part, play Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Peça?
- In the etymology graph, Pezza is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Peça have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 443 people named Peça in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Peça most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Peça is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 52 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Peça?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 338 people named Peça, about 1 in 135 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Peça?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pe%C3%A7aThe 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, “Peça”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.