Pacheco
surname · Latin script
Meaning: is possibly from a dim
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/patʃeko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pacheco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 42nd most common surname.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 375(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 434
- PTPortugal≈1 in 630
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 (measured from records)
- #417 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 375 (inferred from the name graph)
265,114 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
is possibly from a dim. of the given name Francisco (see Frances); the form Pachico is in use in the Basque country, and Pachon and Pachu are found elsewhere in Spain. Al¬ ternatively, it may be related to a root pag-, pak- found in various Romance languages signifying heaviness or fatness, and so be a nickname for a large, fat man.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pacheco 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 | #112 | 265,114 | 1 in 799 | 265K | Pacheco | 212 |
| US United States | — | 77,642 | 1 in 4.3K | 78K | Pacheco | 425 |
| VE Venezuela | #64 | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 375 | 686 | Pacheco | 106 |
| CO Colombia | #117 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 782 | 41 | Pacheco | 157 |
| PE Peru | #92 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 680 | — | Pacheco | 106 |
| EC Ecuador | #42 | 38,944 | 1 in 434 | 39K | Pacheco | 79 |
| PT Portugal | #75 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 630 | — | Pacheco | 134 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 7,112 | 1 in 476 | 7.1K | — | 66 |
265,114 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; 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)
Pacheco is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, possibly from a dim. of the given name Francisco (see Francis); the form Pachico is in use in the Basque country, and Pachon and Pachu are found elsewhere in Spain. Alternatively, it may be related to a root pag-, pakfound in various Romance languages signifying heaviness or fatness, and so be a nickname for a large, fat man.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Spanish, a surname originating in Andalusia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, common in Metro Manila, Bulacan and Nueva Ecija
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hil, a surname from Spanish, common in Negros Occidental
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 Pachecob. 1564ESSpanish painter and teacher (1564-1644)
- Marcelo Torcuato de Alvearb. 1868ARnot in their usual nameArgentine politician, former president of Argentina (1868-1942)
- José López Portillob. 1920MXnot in their usual name58th President of Mexico
- Abel Pachecob. 1933CRPresident of Costa Rica (2002-2006)
- José Emilio Pachecob. 1939MXMexican writer (1939-2014)
- Carlos Pachecob. 1961ESSpanish artist (1961–2022)
- Susana Díazb. 1971ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Scarlet Ortizb. 1974VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan actress
- Fernando Pacheco Floresb. 1992ESSpanish footballer
- Juan Sotob. 1998DOnot in their usual nameDominican baseball player (born 1998)
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 51 sources across 29 countries.
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 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)
- 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
- Where does the name Pacheco come from?
- is possibly from a dim. of the given name Francisco (see Frances); the form Pachico is in use in the Basque country, and Pachon and Pachu are found elsewhere in Spain. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Pacheco?
- A machine transcription gives /patʃeko/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Pacheco mean?
- Recorded meaning: is possibly from a dim.
- In which country does Pacheco have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 265 thousand people named Pacheco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pacheco.
- How common is the name Pacheco?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 265,114 people named Pacheco, about 1 in 799 residents.
- How common is Pacheco compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Pacheco is the 112th 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/pachecoThe 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, “Pacheco” — the 112th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.