Pallàs
surname · Latin script
Pallàs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Pallas, from Ancient Greek Παλλάς (Pallás).
- UYUruguay1 in 4.7K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 19K
- FIFinland1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
2,690 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pallas in US United States, ES Spain, BB Barbados and 1 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)- LatinPallas(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΠαλλάςPallás(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin Pallas, from Ancient Greek Παλλάς (Pallás).
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pallàs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 2,690 | 1 in 19K | 2.7K | Pallas | 39 |
| US United States | — | 947 | 1 in 351K | 1.2K | Pallas | 219 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 719 | 1 in 4.7K | 719 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 276 | 1 in 165K | 276 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 210 | 1 in 27K | 210 | — | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 60 | 1 in 140K | 60 | Pallas | 11 |
| BB Barbados | #382 | — | — | — | Pallas | 2 |
2,690 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Paulino Pallásb. 1862ESSpanish anarchist and typesetter (1862-1893)
- Camil Pallàs i Arisab. 1918ESSpanish architect
- Josep Maria Argimon i Pallàsb. 1958ESmanager of ICS
- Katty Pallàsb. 1965ESfilóloga inglesa, escritora, profesora y activista LGBT valenciana
- Sílvia Barroso i Pallàsb. 1970ESSpanish journalist
- Xavier Pallàs i Marianib. 1980ESCatalan musician
- Ramon Pallas ArenyESindustrial engineer
- Isidre Pallàs PuigdomènechESSpanish politician
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Pallàs mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Pallas, from Ancient Greek Παλλάς (Pallás). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Pallàs have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Pallàs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pallas.
- Where is Pallàs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pallàs is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.7 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pallàs?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,690 people named Pallàs, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Pallàs compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Pallàs is the 382nd most common surname of 11,500 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, “Pallàs” — the 382nd most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.