Pereira
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pear tree
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/peɾejɾɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pereira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 43(measured from records)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 51
- PTPortugal≈1 in 61
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- #95 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 430 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pear tree
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pereira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #6 | ≈4,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 51 | 762 | Pereira | 289 |
| PT Portugal | #3 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 61 | — | Pereira | 250 |
| UY Uruguay | #4 | 78,815 | 1 in 43 | 79K | Pereira | 106 |
| VE Venezuela | #88 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 509 | — | Pereira | 85 |
| AR Argentina | #151 | 49,785 | 1 in 914 | 50K | Pereira | 123 |
| PY Paraguay | #29 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 184 | — | Pereira | 61 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Pereira 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 English, ‘Person who lives by a pear tree’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
from Perera, Spain or place with pears
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, William, US architect
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, Portuguese 'pear tree'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Latvian, pilsēta Kolumbijas Republikā ("Pereira"), Centrālās Kordiljeras rietumu piekājē 1467 m vjl., Risaraldas departamenta administratīvais centrs, 379600 iedzīvotāju (2007. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Aristides Pereirab. 1923CVCape Verdean politician, and first president of Cape Verde (1923-2011)
- Valdir Pereirab. 1928BRBrazilian footballer (1928-2001)
- Heitor Pereirab. 1960BRBrazilian musician
- Rodrigo Paz Pereirab. 1967ESPresident of Bolivia
- Ricardob. 1976PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer and coach
- Hugo Almeidab. 1984PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer and manager (born 1984)
- João Pedro da Silva Pereirab. 1984PTPortuguese football manager (born 1984)
- Maxi Pereirab. 1984UYUruguayan association football player
- Poppyb. 1995USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
- Daniela Melchiorb. 1996PTnot in their usual namePortuguese actress (born 1996)
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 66 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 79K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 50K | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Pereira mean, and where does it come from?
- pear tree Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pereira?
- A machine transcription gives /peɾejɾɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Pereira?
- In the etymology graph, Perera and Peral are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pereira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 million people named Pereira in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pereira.
- Where is Pereira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pereira is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 43 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pereira?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 78,815 people named Pereira, about 1 in 43 residents.
- How common is Pereira compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Pereira is the 6th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pereiraThe 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, “Pereira” — the 6th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.