Pacifico
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pacifico is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In English, recorded as A peaceful native in Cuba or the Philippines who did not oppose Spanish colonization.
- USUnited States1 in 231K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 6.8K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 78K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,442 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A peaceful native in Cuba or the Philippines who did not oppose Spanish colonization.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pacifico is read(measured from records)
Pacifico is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English36%
A peaceful native in Cuba or the Philippines who did not oppose Spanish colonization.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Mexican beer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Portuguese36%
first-person singular present indicative of pacificar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pacifico in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pacifico 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,442 | 1 in 231K | 1.5K | Pacifico | 247 |
| UY Uruguay | 495 | 1 in 6.8K | 495 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 485 | 1 in 94K | 485 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 135 | 1 in 370K | 135 | — | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 108 | 1 in 78K | 108 | — | 11 |
1,442 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Pacifico is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Dal lat. pacificus ‘pacifico, che porta pace’. Nome di tre santi/beati francescani.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
peaceful person; Ancona, Livorno, Foggia, Pitigliano, Amsterdam, Gibraltar, London, Tetuán, Tanger, Oran, Maroc, Amazonia, São Paulo, Porto Alegre
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, forma italiana de Pacificus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Nicola Pacificob. 1734ITbotanist (1734-1799)
- Benito Pacificob. 1929ITItalian actor
- Claudio Pacificob. 1947ITItalian Diplomat, Traveller and Author
- Marinella Pacificob. 1962ITItalian politician
- Claudio Pacificob. 1963ITItalian actor
- Francesco Pacificob. 1977ITItalian writer
- Marcello Pacificob. 1977ITItalian trade unionist
- Albert PacificoUSAmerican surgeon
- Nicola Pacificoresearcher in particle physics
- Maria Giuseppa Soccorsa PacificoITItalian sociologist
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 47 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #18,928 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,069 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 495 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 485 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 135 | #22,241 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 135 | #22,181 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 108 | #10,382 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Pacifico mean, and where does it come from?
- A peaceful native in Cuba or the Philippines who did not oppose Spanish colonization. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Pacifico?
- In the etymology graph, Pace is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pacifico have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Pacifico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pacifico.
- Where is Pacifico most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pacifico is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 6.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pacifico?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,442 people named Pacifico in 2010, about 1 in 231 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pacificoThe 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, “Pacifico”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.