Pachêco
surname · Latin script
Pachêco 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. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Pacheco, surname of Portuguese origin mostly found in Andalusia. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- 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)
- Record sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 375 (inferred from the name graph)
265,114 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pacheco in BR Brazil, PE Peru, VE Venezuela and 4 more.
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)From Spanish Pacheco, surname of Portuguese origin mostly found in Andalusia. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Cited for this meaning 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pachêco 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pachêco mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Pacheco, surname of Portuguese origin mostly found in Andalusia. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Pachêco have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 265 thousand people named Pachêco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pacheco.
- How common is the name Pachêco?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 265,114 people named Pachêco, about 1 in 799 residents.
- How common is Pachêco compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Pachêco is the 112th most common surname of 424,864 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, “Pachêco” — the 112th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.