Peluso

surname · Latin script

Meaning: var. meridional de Peloso

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

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

Peluso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 29K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 38K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 40K

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.

United States (measured from records)

3,712 people, 2010

Sources
120 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

var. meridional de Peloso

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where in the world(measured from records)

Peluso 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 Peluso is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3,7121 in 90K3.8KPeluso120
AR Argentina—1,2011 in 38K1.2K——
BR Brazil—1,1661 in 182K1.2K—1
CH Switzerland—2081 in 40K208Peluso7
UY Uruguay—1161 in 29K116——
IT Italy#701——listedPeluso114

3,712 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Peluso is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Canada

    Also written Péluso

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, Italy

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Пелузо, Пелусо, Peluzo

35 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)

Peluso 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 Italian, Variante di Pelosi

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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)

1940196019802000Tony Peluso, b. 1950Lisa Peluso, b. 1964Mike Peluso, b. 1965Vincenzo Peluso, b. 1968Mike Peluso, b. 1974Jessimae Peluso, b. 1982Chris Peluso, b. 1983Federico Peluso, b. 1984Nathy Peluso, b. 1995Fotinì Peluso, b. 1999

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 Peluso,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Peluso
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.8K#8,115
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.7K#8,822
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.3K#9,427
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#8,033
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024208#6,063
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—116—
IT ItalyDizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978)———
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Peluso mean, and where does it come from?
var. meridional de Peloso Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
How do you pronounce Peluso?
A machine transcription gives /pɛˈɫusoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Peluso have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Peluso, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peluso.
Where is Peluso most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Peluso is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Peluso?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,712 people named Peluso in 2010, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
How common is Peluso compared with other names?
In Italy, Peluso is the 701st most common surname of 502,013 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, “Peluso” — the 701st most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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