Pelegrino

surname · Latin script

Meaning: variante de Peregrino; del latín peregrinus, 'peregrino, extranjero'

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/peleɡɾinu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil≈1 in 195K
  • UYUruguay1 in 103K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,200 people, est.

Sources
85 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Spanish

variante de Peregrino; del latín peregrinus, 'peregrino, extranjero'.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pelegrino 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 Pelegrino is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈3,200 est.≈1 in 34K—Pelegrino22
BR Brazil≈1,100 est.≈1 in 195K122Pelegrino85
US United States1851 in 1.8M204Pelegrino56
AR Argentina541 in 842K54Pelegrino30
ES Spain441 in 1.1M44Pelegrino17
UY Uruguay331 in 103K33Pelegrino6
CU Cuba≈30 est.≈1 in 373K—Pelegrino9
NL Netherlands≈22 est.≈1 in 770K—Pelegrino4

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: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

Pelegrino is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Italy, Canada

    Also written Pélegrino

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States

    Also written Pélégrino

36 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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalPrezado(a) Pelegrino,Dear Pelegrino, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Pelegrino,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Pelegrino
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—122#16,365
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202285—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—84#46,211
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—77#40,858
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)195063—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)195022—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)19454—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)19454—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)19652—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)19652—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)19522—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)19522—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

How do you pronounce Pelegrino?
A machine transcription gives /peleɡɾinu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
What does the name Pelegrino mean?
Recorded meaning: variante de Peregrino; del latín peregrinus, 'peregrino, extranjero'.
In which country does Pelegrino have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Pelegrino in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelegrino.
How common is the name Pelegrino?
In the United States, the national register counted 185 people named Pelegrino in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.

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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, “Pelegrino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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