Pelàez
surname · Latin script
Pelàez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Peláez (patronymic of Pelayo).
- ESSpain1 in 3K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 3.2K
- ECEcuador1 in 3.6K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
16,492 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pelaez in PE Peru, CO Colombia, ES Spain 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).
Sources 1
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #285 | 16,492 | 1 in 3K | 16K | Pelaez | 154 |
| CO Colombia | #287 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 18 | Pelaez | 139 |
| PH Philippines | #472 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Pelaez | 68 |
| PE Peru | #649 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Pelaez | 67 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Pelaez | 3 |
| EC Ecuador | #675 | 4,734 | 1 in 3.6K | 4.7K | Pelaez | 39 |
| GT Guatemala | #208 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Pelaez | 40 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,890 | 1 in 1.8K | 1.9K | Peláez | 41 |
16,492 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: 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.
- In which country does Pelàez have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Pelàez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelaez.
- 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 Spain 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 Spain, Pelàez is the 285th 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/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” — the 285th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.