Peón

surname · Latin script

Meaning: foot soldier, infantryman

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

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

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 22K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 27K
  • ARArgentina1 in 65K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Peón itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

1,822 people

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Paion in BR Brazil.

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)

foot soldier, infantryman

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Peón 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 Peón is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1,8221 in 27K1.8KPeón90
AR Argentina6961 in 65K696Peón43
US United States1841 in 1.8M200Peón81
UY Uruguay1551 in 22K155Peón15
BR Brazil153as Paion1 in 1.4M153Paion7
FR France≈140 est.≈1 in 472K11—2
CU Cuba≈30 est.≈1 in 373K—Peón8

1,822 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling peon. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Peón is also recorded as 5 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 United States, Germany, Spain

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Peòn, Péon, Peon

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Peon, Pèon

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Péon, Peon

  • Hindi name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Peon

  • Russian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Also written Пеон, Peone, Peon, Пэон

15 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Peón is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Asturian, pawn (chess piece)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, laborer, worker

    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)

1700180019002000Antonio María Peón y Heredia, b. 1766Ángeles Flórez Peón, b. 1918Teresa Añón, b. 1951Miguel Costas, b. 1961Juan Carlos Peón, b. 1963María Luisa Peón, b. 1966Mercedes Peón, b. 1967Ana Peón-Nieto, b. 1983Fátima Peón Torres, b. 1985Mariana Aguilar Chávez Peón, b. 1999

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 1 sources 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 Peón mean, and where does it come from?
foot soldier, infantryman Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Peón?
In the etymology graph, Pion and Pedone are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Peón have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Peón, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peón.
Where is Peón most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Peón is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Peón?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,822 people named Peón, about 1 in 27 thousand 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, “Peón”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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