Pelleja
surname · Latin script
Meaning: animal skin, hide
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pelleja is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 292K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 463K
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.2M
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
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 292K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
animal skin, hide
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pelleja 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 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 463K | — | Pelleja | 10 |
| ES Spain | 171 | 1 in 292K | 171 | Pelleja | 29 |
| FR France | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Pelleja | 40 |
| VE Venezuela | — | — | — | Pelleja | 4 |
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: 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Pelleja is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Paparžaugu nodalījuma ģints ("Pellaea")
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 171 | #18,579 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 171 | #18,538 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pelleja mean, and where does it come from?
- animal skin, hide Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Pelleja?
- In the etymology graph, Piel is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pelleja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 236 people named Pelleja in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelleja.
- Where is Pelleja most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pelleja is densest in Spain — about 1 in 292 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pelleja?
- In Spain, the national register counted 171 people named Pelleja, about 1 in 292 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/pellejaThe 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, “Pelleja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.