Pesqueira
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/peskeiɾa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Pesqueira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From pesqueira (“fishery”).
- UYUruguay1 in 40K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 45Kfew records
- MXMexico≈1 in 69K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From pesqueira (“fishery”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname Pesqueira is found
(measured from records)Pesqueira 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 13 | Pesqueira | 80 |
| BR Brazil | 916 | 1 in 231K | 916 | Pesqueira | 47 |
| US United States | 880 | 1 in 378K | 880 | Pesqueira | 127 |
| ES Spain | 418 | 1 in 120K | 418 | Pesqueira | 56 |
| AO Angola | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Pesqueira | 4 |
| PT Portugal | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Pesqueira | 27 |
| UY Uruguay | 85 | 1 in 40K | 85 | Pesqueira | 9 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ignacio Pesqueirab. 1820MXMexican politician (1820-1886)
- Josué Pesqueirab. 1990PTPortuguese footballer
- Walterio PesqueiraMXMexican musician and composer
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pesqueira mean, and where does it come from?
- From pesqueira (“fishery”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Pesqueira?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /peskeiɾa/; in Portuguese /pescejɾɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pesqueira?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Pesqueira in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pesqueira. After it come Brazil, United States, Spain and Angola; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pesqueira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pesqueira is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pesqueira?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 916 people named Pesqueira, about 1 in 231 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pesqueira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pesqueiraThe 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, “Pesqueira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.