Pecanha

surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 899K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 7.8M

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)

18,943 people

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Peçanha in IT Italy.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pecanha 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 Pecanha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#57718,9431 in 11K19KPecanha90
US United States—≈36 est.≈1 in 9.2MlistedPecanha48
PT Portugal—≈11 est.≈1 in 899K—Pecanha4
IT Italy—≈8 est.≈1 in 7.8M—Peçanha4
TR Türkiye—≈3 est.≈1 in 27M—Pecanha1

18,943 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)

Pecanha is also recorded as 6 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 United States, Brazil, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Peçanha

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Peçanha

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Peçanha

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Peçanha

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Peçanha

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Peçanha

24 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Pecanha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—19K#862
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Pecanha have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Pecanha, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pecanha.
Where is Pecanha most common?
Pecanha is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Pecanha?
In Brazil, the national register counted 18,943 people named Pecanha, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
How common is Pecanha compared with other names?
In Brazil, Pecanha is the 577th most common surname of 424,864 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, “Pecanha” — the 577th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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