Perico
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Perico is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: parakeet.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 55K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 61K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
parakeet
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Perico 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Perico | 26 |
| BR Brazil | 2,300 | 1 in 92K | 2.3K | Perico | 76 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 50K | listed | Perico | 25 |
| CO Colombia | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Perico | 52 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Perico | 12 |
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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Perico is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Spanish: pet form of PEDRO , derived from the archaic variant Pero .
as a word
In Galician, unruly, rebellious
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)
- Giacomo Pericob. 1911ITItalian Jesuit priest and bioethicist (1911-2000)
- Eugenio Pericob. 1951ITItalian association football manager and association football player
- Alessandro Pericob. 1976ITItalian rally driver
- Gabriele Pericob. 1984ITItalian footballer
- Laura Pericob. 1989COColombian actress
- Simone Pericob. 1989ITItalian 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.3K | #4,302 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Perico mean, and where does it come from?
- parakeet Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Perico have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Perico in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perico.
- How common is the name Perico?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,300 people named Perico, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pericoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Perico”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.