Pagani

surname · Latin script

Meaning: masculine plural of pagano

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 437K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 3.8K
  • ARArgentina1 in 14K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

5,528 people

Sources
218 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

masculine plural of pagano

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pagani 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 Pagani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil5,5281 in 38K5.5KPagani5
AR Argentina3,2941 in 14K3.3K—2
UY Uruguay9001 in 3.8K900——
US United States7621 in 437K957Pagani218
CH Switzerland4931 in 17K493Pagani15
CR Costa Rica1411 in 36K141——

5,528 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

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

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Paganì

  • Lao surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Pakanee, ปากานี, ปากาน, P̶a̶g̶a̶n̶i̶, ปากานิ

45 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pagani 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, forma plural de Pagano

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Latin, inflection of pāgānus:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Ganu izpalīgi

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

190019502000Nello Pagani, b. 1911Enrico Pagani, b. 1929Pino Pagani, b. 1937Amedeo Pagani, b. 1940Herbert Pagani, b. 1944Mauro Pagani, b. 1946Horacio Pagani, b. 1955Marco Pagani, b. 1955Antonio Paganin, b. 1966Alice Pagani, b. 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)

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

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Pagani
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—5.5K#2,085
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—3.3K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020957#26,812
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—900—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000820#27,646
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010762#30,600
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024493#2,615
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—141#1,192
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Pagani mean, and where does it come from?
masculine plural of pagano Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Pagani?
A machine transcription gives /paɣani/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Pagani have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Pagani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pagani.
Where is Pagani most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pagani is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 3.8 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pagani?
In Brazil, the national register counted 5,528 people named Pagani, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.

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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, “Pagani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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