Peralta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: name from any of various places, for example in the prov¬ inces of Huesca and Navarre, so called from L petra alta high rock
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/peɾalta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Peralta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common surname.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 186(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 313
- ARArgentina1 in 379
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #579 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 403 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 186 (inferred from the name graph)
119,880 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
name from any of various places, for example in the prov¬ inces of Huesca and Navarre, so called from L petra alta high rock. Perard see Pierre Perce see Pearce Penwarne Cornish: habitation name from places in the parishes of Mawnan, Cuby, and Mevagissey, all so called from Corn, pen head, top, end + gwern, which means both ‘marsh’ and ‘alder trees’.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peralta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #46 | 119,880 | 1 in 379 | 120K | Peralta | 144 |
| PH Philippines | #129 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Peralta | 113 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #21 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 186 | — | Peralta | 104 |
| US United States | — | 36,585 | 1 in 9.1K | 38K | Peralta | 403 |
| PE Peru | #112 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 897 | — | Peralta | 109 |
| EC Ecuador | #51 | 33,575 | 1 in 503 | 34K | Peralta | 77 |
| PY Paraguay | #56 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 313 | — | Peralta | 65 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 8,659 | 1 in 391 | 8.7K | — | 63 |
119,880 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Peralta is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, a habitational surname
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
naughty child
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Iloko, a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Peralta, generally concentrated in Ilocos Sur and La Union
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, feminine singular of peraltu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, mischievous
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Víctor Peraltab. 1908ARboxer (1908–1995)
- Stacy Peraltab. 1957USAmerican skateboarder, screenwriter, film director
- Eduardo Peraltab. 1958CLChilean singer songwriter
- Gabriel Schürrerb. 1971ARnot in their usual nameArgentine football player/manager
- Julio Peraltab. 1981CLChilean tennis player
- Oribe Peraltab. 1984MXMexican association football player
- Arnold Peraltab. 1989HNHonduran footballer (1989-2015)
- Pedro Pichardob. 1993CUnot in their usual nameCuban triple jumper
- Edison Floresb. 1994PEnot in their usual namePeruvian association football player
- Iván Alejo Peraltab. 1995ESSpanish association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 23 countries.
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 Peralta mean, and where does it come from?
- name from any of various places, for example in the prov¬ inces of Huesca and Navarre, so called from L petra alta high rock. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Peralta?
- A machine transcription gives /peɾalta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Peralta have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 120 thousand people named Peralta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peralta.
- How common is the name Peralta?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 119,880 people named Peralta, about 1 in 379 residents.
- How common is Peralta compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Peralta is the 46th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peraltaThe 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, “Peralta” — the 46th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.