Pericó

surname · Latin script

Pericó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From periko. Before standardization of spelling.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
  • COColombia≈1 in 55K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 61K

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)

≈3,000 people, est.

Sources
76 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Perico in BR Brazil, PH Philippines, VE Venezuela and 2 more.

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)

From periko. Before standardization of spelling.

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pericó 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 Pericó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈3,000 est.≈1 in 37K—Perico26
BR Brazil2,3001 in 92K2.3KPerico76
IT Italy≈1,200 est.≈1 in 50KlistedPerico25
CO Colombia≈890 est.≈1 in 55K—Perico52
VE Venezuela≈470 est.≈1 in 61K—Perico12

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: 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pericó is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Perico, Périco, Pericò

1 further group 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)

Pericó 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 Catalan, St. John's wort (species in the genus Hypericum)

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pericó under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pericó mean, and where does it come from?
From periko. Before standardization of spelling. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Pericó have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Pericó in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perico.
How common is the name Pericó?
In Brazil, the national register counted 2,300 people named Pericó, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.

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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, “Pericó”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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