Perea
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A portion of biblical king Herod's kingdom, on the eastern side of the Jordan River valley, from about one third the way down from the Sea of Galilee to about one third the way down the eastern shore
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɛrɛa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Perea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 3.2K
- ECEcuador1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 291 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 portion of biblical king Herod's kingdom, on the eastern side of the Jordan River valley, from about one third the way down from the Sea of Galilee to about one third the way down the eastern shore of the Dead Sea.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Perea 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #303 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 10 | Perea | 129 |
| ES Spain | #277 | 15,834 | 1 in 3.2K | 16K | Perea | 175 |
| US United States | — | 11,546 | 1 in 29K | 12K | Perea | 291 |
| AR Argentina | #503 | 9,949 | 1 in 4.6K | 9.9K | Perea | 80 |
| EC Ecuador | #822 | 5,244 | 1 in 3.2K | 5.2K | Perea | 24 |
| PE Peru | #810 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Perea | 70 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
- Luis Carlos Pereab. 1963COColombian footballer
- Nixon Pereab. 1973COColombian association football player
- Fran Pereab. 1978ESSpanish actor and singer
- Luis Amaranto Pereab. 1979COColombian footballer
- Oliver Fulab. 1988COnot in their usual nameColombian association football player
- Alberto Pereab. 1990ESSpanish footballer
- Brayan Pereab. 1993COColombian footballer (born 1993)
- Brandon Pereab. 1995USAmerican actor
- Juan José Pereab. 2000COGreek association football player
- Víctor Gómez Pereab. 2000ESSpanish footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 16K | #337 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16K | #337 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #3,124 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,201 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 9.9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.8K | #3,700 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5.2K | #742 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 5.2K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1995 | 167 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2006 | 142 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2012 | 131 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2013 | 125 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Perea mean, and where does it come from?
- A portion of biblical king Herod's kingdom, on the eastern side of the Jordan River valley, from about one third the way down from the Sea of Galilee to about one third the way down the eastern shore… Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Perea?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛrɛa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Perea have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Perea in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perea.
- How common is the name Perea?
- In Spain, the national register counted 15,834 people named Perea, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Perea compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Perea is the 303rd most common surname of 144,306 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/pereaThe 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, “Perea” — the 303rd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.