Pancho

surname · Latin script

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

Pancho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: calm, relaxed.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 5.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 751K
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 75K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈18,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
129 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PanchoLatin(measured from records)
ПанчоCyrillic(measured from records)
ปานโชThai(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)

calm, relaxed

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pancho 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 Pancho is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#923≈18,000 est.≈1 in 5.9K—Pancho59
CO Colombia—≈470 est.≈1 in 105K—Pancho28
US United States—4431 in 751K792Pancho129
ES Spain—4201 in 119K420Pancho54
VE Venezuela—≈290 est.≈1 in 100K—Pancho13
BO Bolivia—≈160 est.≈1 in 75K—Pancho8

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

Pancho is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Pãñçhô, Panchõ

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, India, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, France, United States

    Also written Panchó, Pànchô

  • German surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Philippines, United States

    Also written Pàncho

48 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)

Pancho is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Spanish: pet form of Francisco (see FRANCIS ).

    as a word

  • In Galician, axillary sea bream (Pagellus acarne)

    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)

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 45 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Pancho
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020494#46,481
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010443#47,791
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—420#9,170
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—420#9,160
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000285#65,133
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Pancho mean, and where does it come from?
calm, relaxed Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Pancho?
In the etymology graph, Franco, Franko and Curro are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Pancho have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Pancho in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pancho.
How common is the name Pancho?
In the United States, the national register counted 443 people named Pancho in 2010, about 1 in 751 thousand residents.
How common is Pancho compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Pancho is the 923rd most common surname of 876,464 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, “Pancho” — the 923rd most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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