Pelecanos
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Pelecanos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country. Pelecanos is also written Πελεκανος in Greek.
- CYCyprus≈1 in 15Kfew recordsas Pelekanos(inferred from the name graph)
- GRGreece≈1 in 26Kfew recordsas Pelekanou
- AUAustralia≈1 in 900Kfew recordsas Pelekanos
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pelecanos 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 named Pelekanou, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est., as Pelekanos
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Pelecanos in other scripts: Latin and Greek
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pelekanos in US United States, AU Australia, DE Germany and 1 more, Πελεκανος in GR Greece and Pelekanou in CY Cyprus.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pelecanos is found
(measured from records)Pelecanos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 3 | Πελεκανος | 24 |
| CY Cyprus | #408 | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Pelekanou | 23 |
| US United States | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | listed | Pelekanos | 67 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 898K | — | Pelekanos | 26 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Pelekanos | 23 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 680K | — | Pelekanos | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)Pelecanos is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, accusative plural of pelecānus
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pelecanos?
- Mondonomo estimates about 394 people named Pelekanou in Greece, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Cyprus, United States, Australia and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Pelecanos?
- Mondonomo estimates about 390 people in Greece have Pelekanou as their first surname, about 1 in 26 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Pelecanos compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Pelecanos is the 408th most common surname of 24,832 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pelecanosThe 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, “Pelecanos” — the 408th most common surname in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.