Paes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Pelagio
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/pajs/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Paes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 14Kfew records
- EEEstonia≈1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
117,884 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Pelagio
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Paes is found
(measured from records)Paes 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 | #174 | 117,884 | 1 in 1.8K | 118K | Paes | 184 |
| PT Portugal | #627 | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Paes | 58 |
| US United States | — | 392 | 1 in 849K | 475 | Paes | 152 |
| AR Argentina | — | 333 | 1 in 137K | 333 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 288 | 1 in 60K | 288 | Paes | 19 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 84 | 1 in 40K | 84 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 23 | — | 2 |
117,884 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the ee-stat-nimed 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)Paes is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, acronym of Prueba de Aprendizajes y Aptitudes para Egresados de Educación Media, a national exam taken annually by high school students
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, a surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lmo, town, village
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, the meshes of sin
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, ieee a Ae
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)- Sidónio Paisb. 1872PTnot in their usual nameassassinated Portuguese president (1872-1918)
- Josh Paisb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Leander Paesb. 1973INIndian tennis player
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Paes mean, and where does it come from?
- Pelagio Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Paes?
- In Portuguese /pajs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Paes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 118 thousand people named Paes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paes. After it come Portugal, United States, Argentina and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Paes most common?
- Paes is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Paes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 117,884 people named Paes, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Paes compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Paes is the 174th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Paes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paesThe 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, “Paes” — the 174th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.