Pavese

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Obsolete form of pavis

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

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

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 86K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 365K
  • USUnited States1 in 774K

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.

Argentina (measured from records)

528 people

Sources
96 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

of, from or relating to Pavia

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

How Pavese is read(measured from records)

Pavese is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English42%

    Obsolete form of pavis.

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

    Cesare, Italian writer

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Spanish36%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Pavese in Spanish.

  • Italian7.3%

    of, from or relating to Pavia

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

    habitante de Pavia, com sufixo singular -ese

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • French5.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Pavese in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pavese 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 Pavese is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina5281 in 86K528—1
US United States4301 in 774K431Pavese12
BR Brazil1941 in 1.1M194——
ES Spain271 in 1.9M27—2
CH Switzerland231 in 365K23——
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——

528 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Pavese is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pavèse

38 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)

Pavese 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.

  • In German, from the place name Pavia

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In pi, locative singular of pavesa

    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)

1400160018002000Giovanni Giacomo Pavese, b. 1519Luigi Pavese, b. 1897Nino Pavese, b. 1904Cesare Pavese, b. 1908Paila Pavese, b. 1942Paolo Pavese, b. 1957Jim Pavese, b. 1962Carlo Pavese, b. 1971

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)

FormalDear Pavese,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Pavese
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—528—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020431#52,071
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010430#48,995
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000364#53,299
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—194#37,693
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—27#69,247
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—27#67,696
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202423#33,003
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—4#74,542
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

Where does the name Pavese come from?
of, from or relating to Pavia Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Pavese?
A machine transcription gives /pɑˈveɪzi/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Pavese mean?
In English, Obsolete form of pavis.
In which country does Pavese have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 528 people named Pavese, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pavese most common?
Pavese is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 86 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Pavese?
In Argentina, the national register counted 528 people named Pavese, about 1 in 86 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, “Pavese”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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