Pereyra

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Venezia, Livorno, Florence, Paris, Amsterdam, Curaçao, Surinam, London, Jamaica, Hunt's Bay, Kingston, Ciudad de Mexico

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

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

Pereyra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 283(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 43as Pereira
  • ESSpain1 in 1.4Kas Pereira

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pereyra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

160,530 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
266 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 283 (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PereyraLatin(measured from records)
ΠερειραGreek(measured from records)

Locally spelled Pereira in CH Switzerland.

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)

Venezia, Livorno, Florence, Paris, Amsterdam, Curaçao, Surinam, London, Jamaica, Hunt's Bay, Kingston, Ciudad de Mexico

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pereyra 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 Pereyra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#28160,5301 in 283161KPereyra143
UY Uruguay#1878,815as Pereira1 in 4379KPereyra89
ES Spain—36,678as Pereira1 in 1.4K37KPereyra107
US United States—29,898as Pereira1 in 11K32KPereyra266
IN India—13,258as Pereira1 in 100K13KPereyra4
CH Switzerland—11,630as Pereira1 in 72312KPereira6
CR Costa Rica—9,389as Pereira1 in 5439.4K—18

160,530 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Pereyra is also recorded as another name, 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, Philippines, Peru, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Pèŕeyra

50 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000José Rondeau, b. 1773Marcos Paz, b. 1813Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra, b. 1846Alcides Ghiggia, b. 1926Darío Pereyra, b. 1956Facundo Pereyra, b. 1987Gastón Ramírez, b. 1990Fernando Saucedo, b. 1990Roberto Pereyra, b. 1991Gonzalo González, b. 1993

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)

FormalEstimado/a Pereyra,Dear Pereyra, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Pereyra,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Pereyra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—161K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—33K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204K#7,991
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.9K#8,496
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.7K#10,725
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.2K#2,225
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.2K#2,225
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—39#2,502
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202436#23,866
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
  • Wikipedia surname 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

What does the name Pereyra mean, and where does it come from?
Venezia, Livorno, Florence, Paris, Amsterdam, Curaçao, Surinam, London, Jamaica, Hunt's Bay, Kingston, Ciudad de Mexico Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Pereyra?
A machine transcription gives /peɾeiɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Pereyra have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 161 thousand people named Pereyra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pereyra.
Where is Pereyra most common?
Pereyra is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 283 people carrying it.
How common is the name Pereyra?
In Argentina, the national register counted 160,530 people named Pereyra, about 1 in 283 residents.
How common is Pereyra compared with other names?
In Argentina, Pereyra is the 28th most common surname of 398,256 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, “Pereyra” — the 28th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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