Palacios
surname · Latin script
Meaning: courtier; Amsterdam, London, Bordeaux, Surinam, Buenos Aires
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Palacios is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 291(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 327
- ECEcuador1 in 407
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- #599 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 417 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 291 (inferred from the name graph)
≈63,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
courtier; Amsterdam, London, Bordeaux, Surinam, Buenos Aires
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Palacios 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #71 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 506 | — | Palacios | 121 |
| CO Colombia | #136 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 942 | 47 | Palacios | 164 |
| AR Argentina | #142 | 47,820 | 1 in 951 | 48K | Palacios | 123 |
| US United States | — | 43,798 | 1 in 7.6K | 45K | Palacios | 417 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 41,572 | 1 in 407 | 42K | Palacios | 101 |
| VE Venezuela | #152 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 816 | — | Palacios | 88 |
| NI Nicaragua | #34 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 291 | — | Palacios | 59 |
| SV El Salvador | #58 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 327 | 22K | Palacios | 70 |
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; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Palacios is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, plural of palaciu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Simón Bolívarb. 1783VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan statesman and military officer (1783–1830)
- Julián Palaciosb. 1880ESReal Madrid president
- Arnold Palaciosb. 1955USGovernor of the Northern Mariana Islands from 2023 to 2025
- Bárbara Palacios Teydeb. 1963ESwriter, former TV show host, former minister of tourism in Venezuela
- Santiago Peña Palaciosb. 1978PYPresident of Paraguay since 2023
- Wilson Palaciosb. 1984HNHonduran footballer
- Exequiel Palaciosb. 1998ARArgentine association football player
- Diego Palaciosb. 1999ECEcuadorean footballer
- Sheynnis Palaciosb. 2000NINicaraguan model, periodista
- Jhon Duránb. 2003COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
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 38 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Palacios mean, and where does it come from?
- courtier; Amsterdam, London, Bordeaux, Surinam, Buenos Aires Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Palacios have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 63 thousand people named Palacios in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palacios.
- How common is the name Palacios?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 47,820 people named Palacios, about 1 in 951 residents.
- How common is Palacios compared with other names?
- In Peru, Palacios is the 71st most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Palacios” — the 71st most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.