Pelén
surname · Latin script
Pelén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guatemala than in any other country.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 11Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 64K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 230Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pelen in TR Türkiye, GT Guatemala, PH Philippines and 3 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pelén 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT Guatemala | #779 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Pelen | 17 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Pelen | 28 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 227K | — | Pelen | 9 |
| FR France | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 373K | 18 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 123 | 1 in 2.7M | 130 | Pelen | 34 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 372K | — | Pelen | 25 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 29 | 1 in 290K | 29 | Pelen | 7 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Pelén have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Pelén in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelen.
- How common is the name Pelén?
- In the United States, the national register counted 123 people named Pelén in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
- How common is Pelén compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Pelén is the 779th most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pelén?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pel%C3%A9nThe 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, “Pelén” — the 779th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.