Peon
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Peon is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- 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 Peon 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)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
1,822 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Peón in ES Spain, AR Argentina, US United States and 2 more and 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)
A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peon 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.
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Peon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, gr. Ilockuv, cf. 11ccti5v vindecatorul", epitetul lui Apollo, sau < etnic IIodoveq. 14 - c. 1237 Peon m-te (17 A III 64), sau cu fonetism mold. e < i, din Pionie. Pepano v. Filip V 4.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In Russian, "doctor."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Polish, peon (lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, one who goes on foot; pedestrian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a peony (genus Paeonia)
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)
- Francisco Solís Peónb. 1968MXMexican 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)
Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.8K | #2,617 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.8K | #2,617 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 696 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 200 | #97,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 184 | #98,553 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 155 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 153 | #107,565 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 102 | #62,416 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 20 | — |
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 Peon mean, and where does it come from?
- A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Peon have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Peon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peón.
- Where is Peon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Peon 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 Peon?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,822 people named Peon, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peonThe 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, “Peon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.