Palacio

loc · Latin script

Meaning: palace

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

Palacio is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 28K(measured from records)
  • COColombia≈1 in 1K
  • PAPanama≈1 in 1.3K

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈49,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
318 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PalacioLatin(measured from records)
ПаласиоCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

palace

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Palacio 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 Palacio is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia≈49,000 est.≈1 in 1K39Palacio170
AR Argentina27,3621 in 1.7K27K—109
US United States8,4001 in 40K8.7K—318
ES Spain8,0221 in 6.2K8KPalacio162
BR Brazil7,6711 in 28K7.7KPalacio94
PA Panama≈2,900 est.≈1 in 1.3K106—36
UY Uruguay2,3561 in 1.4K2.4K—37
PY Paraguay≈1,900 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Palacio22

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; the co-datosgov-candidates 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Palacio is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico

    Also written Palácio, Pâlàçîô, Palaçio, Pãląçio, Palaciô

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Palàcio, Palácio

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Palacïo, Pâlâçîô, Palácio, Pàlàcîô

57 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Armando Palacio Valdés, b. 1853Alfredo Palacio, b. 1939Ana Palacio, b. 1948Loyola de Palacio, b. 1950Carlos Valderrama, b. 1961R. J. Palacio, b. 1963Yoel Romero, b. 1977Milton Palacio, b. 1978Rodrigo Palacio, b. 1982Johan Mojica, b. 1992

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 32 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Palacio
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—27K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020208.7K#3,957
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020108.4K#4,220
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—8K#690
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—8K#690
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—7.7K#1,603
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020006.9K#4,731
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—2.4K—
PA PanamaTribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election2024106#25
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—39#77
PA PanamaWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—1#621
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
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Palacio mean, and where does it come from?
palace Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Palacio have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Palacio in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palacio.
How common is the name Palacio?
In Argentina, the national register counted 27,362 people named Palacio, about 1 in 1.7 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, “Palacio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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