Pachas

surname · Latin script

Meaning: feminine plural of pacho

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/pat͡ʃas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pachas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 259K
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 284K

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.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈13,000 people, est.

Sources
87 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

feminine plural of pacho

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pachas 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.

Where Pachas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#409≈13,000 est.≈1 in 2.5K—Pachas70
BR Brazil—≈510 est.≈1 in 413K—Pachas15
US United States—2411 in 1.4M241Pachas87
ES Spain—1931 in 259K193Pachas31
AR Argentina—1271 in 358K127Pachas26
VE Venezuela—≈76 est.≈1 in 377K—Pachas16
BO Bolivia—≈41 est.≈1 in 284K—Pachas4

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pachas is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Päċhäs

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Italy, United States

    Also written ̶p̶a̶c̶h̶a̶s̶

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Francisco Alfonso Pachas Carbajal, b. 1935Ulla Holmquist, b. 1969Daniel Rojas, b. 1983

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)

FormalEstimado/a Pachas,Dear Pachas, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Pachas,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Pachas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010241#79,075
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020227#87,947
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—193#17,013
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—193#16,980
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000180#94,227
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—127—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 Pachas mean, and where does it come from?
feminine plural of pacho Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Pachas?
A machine transcription gives /pat͡ʃas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Pachas have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Pachas in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pachas.
How common is the name Pachas?
In the United States, the national register counted 241 people named Pachas in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
How common is Pachas compared with other names?
In Peru, Pachas is the 409th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Pachas” — the 409th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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