Paines
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pajnɛʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paines is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Middx; Somerset. see Panes .
- UYUruguay1 in 38K(measured from records)
- DMDominica1 in 74K
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K
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)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
467 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Middx; Somerset. see Panes .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paines 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 | 467 | 1 in 453K | 467 | Paines | 49 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 543K | 243 | Paines | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 90 | 1 in 38K | 90 | Paines | 7 |
| FR France | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | 11 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 14M | listed | Paines | 3 |
| DM Dominica | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 1 | 1 in 101K | 1 | — | — |
467 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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Paineb. 1717GBnot in their usual nameBritish architect; (1717-1789)
- Robert Treat Paineb. 1731USnot in their usual nameAmerican lawyer and judge, signer of the US Declaration of Independence (1731-1814)
- Thomas Paineb. 1737USnot in their usual nameAmerican Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)
- John Knowles Paineb. 1839USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer (1839–1906)
- Sumner Paineb. 1868USnot in their usual nameAmerican sport shooter (1868–1904)
- John Paineb. 1870USnot in their usual nameAmerican sport shooter (1870-1951)
- Thomas Otten Paineb. 1921USnot in their usual nameAmerican scientist (1921-1992)
- Robert T. Paineb. 1933USnot in their usual nameAmerican zoologist (1933–2016)
- Terry Paineb. 1939GBnot in their usual nameEnglish footballer and manager (born 1939)
- Jack Havenb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1994)
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 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 467 | #18,124 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 243 | #18,794 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 90 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 3 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Paines mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Middx; Somerset. see Panes . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Paines?
- A machine transcription gives /pajnɛʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Paines have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 467 people named Paines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paines.
- Where is Paines most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paines is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Paines?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 467 people named Paines, about 1 in 453 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/painesThe 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, “Paines”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.