Pelàez
surname · Latin script
Pelàez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Peláez (patronymic of Pelayo). Pelàez is also written Пелаес in Cyrillic.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 2.3K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 2.9K
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 Pelàez itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Pelàez in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pelaez in MX Mexico, PE Peru, CO Colombia and 4 more and Peláez 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 Peláez (patronymic of Pelayo).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pelàez is found
(measured from records)Pelàez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #287 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 18 | Pelaez | 139 |
| ES Spain | #285 | 16,492 | 1 in 3K | 16K | Pelaez | 154 |
| MX Mexico | #789 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 474 | Pelaez | 136 |
| PH Philippines | #472 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Pelaez | 68 |
| PE Peru | #649 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Pelaez | 67 |
| GT Guatemala | #208 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Pelaez | 40 |
| EC Ecuador | #675 | 4,734 | 1 in 3.6K | 4.7K | Pelaez | 39 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,890 | 1 in 1.8K | 1.9K | Peláez | 41 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; 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 Pelàez mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Peláez (patronymic of Pelayo). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pelàez?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Pelàez in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelaez. After it come Spain, Mexico, Philippines and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pelàez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pelàez is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pelàez?
- In Spain, the national register counted 16,492 people named Pelàez, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Pelàez compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Pelàez is the 287th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pelàez?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pel%C3%A0ezThe 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, “Pelàez” — ranked 98th in Colombia (the co-datosgov-candidates register). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.