Peláez

Name: Peláez: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Peláez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.

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 Peláez 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)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

PeláezLatin

ПелаесCyrillic

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Pelaez

Locally spelled Pelaez in MX Mexico, PE Peru, CO Colombia and 4 more.

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

a surname originating as a patronymic

Cited for this meaning 1

kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Peláez 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.

Where Peláez is recorded, by country
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).

Other names spelled this way

Peláez is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name6 spellings in the group
Also written Pelaéz, Pelãez, Pelàez, Pélaez, Pelaez
French surname9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Spain
Languages: French, Catalan
Also written Pelaez, Pélaez, Pelaéz, Pelàez, Pélaëz
Lithuanian surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Spain, Philippines
Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian
Also written Pelaez, Pelàez
a separate surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, Peru
Also written Pelaez
Swedish surname8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Peru, Spain, Denmark
Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Also written Pelaez
Czech surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Slovakia, Spain, Czechia, Philippines
Languages: Czech, Slovak
Also written Pelaez
Croatian surname13 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Spain, United States, Peru, Philippines
Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian
Also written Pelaez, Пелаез

19 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

Gonzalo Peláezb. 1001ESRuler of Asturias
Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentesb. 1874CUnot in their usual nameCuban composer (1874–1944)
Amelia Peláezb. 1896CUCuban artist (1896-1968)
Omara Portuondob. 1930CUnot in their usual nameCuban singer
Wilfredo Peláezb. 1930UYbasketball player (1930–2019)
Angelina Peláezb. 1939MXMexican actress
Vicky Peláezb. 1956PEPeruvian journalist
Ricardo Peláezb. 1963MXMexican association football player and executive
Abril Zamorab. 1981ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
Francisco Vargas Peláezb. 1984MXMexican boxer

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).

Evidence

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Peláez under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Peláez mean, and where does it come from?: a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Peláez have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Peláez in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelaez.
Where is Peláez most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Peláez 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 Peláez?: In Spain, the national register counted 16,492 people named Peláez, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
How common is Peláez compared with other names?: In Colombia, Peláez is the 287th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.

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The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Peláez” — the 287th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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