Paie

surname · Latin script

Meaning: pay, salary

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

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

rarermore common
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 701K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.3M
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.4M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

150 people

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 701K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

pay, salary

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Paie 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 Paie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1501 in 1.4M150Paie17
BE Belgium91 in 1.3M9——
EE Estonia≈2 est.≈1 in 701Klisted——
PE Peru≈1 est.≈1 in 28M—Paie3

150 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Paie is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Australia, Philippines

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Paié, Paiè, Paiė

  • Malay surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Pa'Ie

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium

    Also written Paiè, Paié

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Paiè, Paié

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Paie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—150#46,374
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20089#77,018

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Paie mean, and where does it come from?
pay, salary Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Paie?
In the etymology graph, Payer is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Paie have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 150 people named Paie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paie.
How common is the name Paie?
In Brazil, the national register counted 150 people named Paie, about 1 in 1.4 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, “Paie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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