Pecora
surname · Latin script
Meaning: of flocks of sheep and goats, from It
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɛˈkɔɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pecora is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 102K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 133K
- UYUruguay1 in 7.6K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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)
of flocks of sheep and goats, from It. pecora flock (from L pecus, gen. pecoris). Vars.: Pecori, Peguri; Pecoraro, Pecora(r)i, Pegoraro, Pegorari, Pegorer. Dims.: Pecorella, Pecorelli, Pegoretti, Pecorini, Pegorin(i).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pecora 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 22K | listed | Pecora | 36 |
| US United States | — | 2,509 | 1 in 133K | 2.5K | Pecora | 288 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 351K | — | Pecora | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | 673 | 1 in 68K | 673 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 102K | 12 | Pecora | 27 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 446 | 1 in 7.6K | 446 | — | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Pecora | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Pecora | 2 |
| BB Barbados | #774 | — | — | — | Pecora | 2 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Pecora is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, keeper of flocks of sheep and goats, from It. pecora flock (from L pecus, gen. pecoris). Pecori, Peguri; Pegorari, Pegorer. Vars.: Pecoraro, Pecora(r)i, Peech see Peachey Peek see Peak
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Italian, do latim pecus/pecora; criador e mercador de ovinos
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pecus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, sheep
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)
- Santo Pecorab. 1902USAmerican musician (1902–1984)
- William T. Pecorab. 1913USAmerican geologist, director of USGS
- Frank Pecorab. 1930USAmerican politician
- Elio Pecorab. 1936ITItalian poet and writer
- Robert Pecorab. 1938USacademic
- Paolo Pecorab. 1949ITItalian film director and screenwriter
- Michele Pecorab. 1957ITItalian singer-songwriter
- Valentina Pecorab. 1984UYUruguayan lyricist
- Emilio PecoraITresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-5171-9504
- Giulia PecoraITresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-7099-706X
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,252 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,115 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 673 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 446 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 12 | #127,230 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Pecora come from?
- of flocks of sheep and goats, from It. pecora flock (from L pecus, gen. pecoris). Vars.: Pecori, Peguri; Pecoraro, Pecora(r)i, Pegoraro, Pegorari, Pegorer. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Pecora?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛˈkɔɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Pecora mean?
- Recorded meaning: of flocks of sheep and goats, from It.
- In which country does Pecora have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Pecora in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pecora.
- Where is Pecora most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pecora is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 7.6 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pecora?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,509 people named Pecora in 2010, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
- How common is Pecora compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Pecora is the 774th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pecoraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Pecora” — the 774th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.