Pelagio
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Nome di significato uguale a Marino; forma collegata al greco Pelágios, 'marino'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pəɫædʒioʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pelagio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 636K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 85K
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)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Nome di significato uguale a Marino; forma collegata al greco Pelágios, 'marino'.
Sources 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pelagio 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Pelagio | 65 |
| CN China | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Pelagio | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Pelagio | 3 |
| US United States | 523 | 1 in 636K | 523 | Pelagio | 99 |
| BR Brazil | 430 | 1 in 492K | 430 | Pelagio | 35 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 393K | — | Pelagio | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 401K | — | Pelagio | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Pelagio 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 Italian, dal greco Pelágios, 'del mare, marino'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of Pelagius
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)
- Alvaro Pelagiocatholic bishop
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 25 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 523 | #41,579 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 516 | #44,751 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 430 | #19,491 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 297 | #62,961 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Pelagio?
- A machine transcription gives /pəɫædʒioʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Pelagio mean?
- Recorded meaning: Nome di significato uguale a Marino; forma collegata al greco Pelágios, 'marino'.
- In which country does Pelagio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.0 thousand people named Pelagio in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelagio.
- How common is the name Pelagio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 523 people named Pelagio in 2010, about 1 in 636 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pelagioThe 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, “Pelagio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.