Peláez

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

rarermore common
  • 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)

16,492 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
306 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PeláezLatin(measured from records)
ПелаесCyrillic(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.

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)

a surname originating as a patronymic

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

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
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#28516,4921 in 3K16KPelaez154
CO Colombia#287≈15,000 est.≈1 in 3.2K18Pelaez139
PH Philippines#472≈13,000 est.≈1 in 8.3K—Pelaez68
PE Peru#649≈6,800 est.≈1 in 4.7K—Pelaez67
ID Indonesia—≈6,000 est.≈1 in 44K—Pelaez3
EC Ecuador#6754,7341 in 3.6K4.7KPelaez39
GT Guatemala#208≈3,600 est.≈1 in 4.7K—Pelaez40
UY Uruguay—1,8901 in 1.8K1.9KPeláez41

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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(measured from records)

100012001400160018002000Gonzalo Peláez, b. 1001Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, b. 1874Amelia Peláez, b. 1896Omara Portuondo, b. 1930Wilfredo Peláez, b. 1930Angelina Peláez, b. 1939Vicky Peláez, b. 1956Ricardo Peláez, b. 1963Abril Zamora, b. 1981Francisco Vargas Peláez, b. 1984

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(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.

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

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?
In Spain, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Peláez, 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 Spain 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 Spain, Peláez is the 285th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Peláez” — the 285th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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