Pigao

surname · Latin script

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

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

Pigao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 48K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 247K
  • NONorway≈1 in 901K

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)

≈2,300 people, est.

Sources
69 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pigao 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 Pigao is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈2,300 est.≈1 in 48K—Pigao37
US United States1241 in 2.7M126Pigao69
PY Paraguay≈29 est.≈1 in 247K—Pigao1
IT Italy≈23 est.≈1 in 2.7M—Pigao3
BR Brazil211 in 10M21Pigao9
SG Singapore≈6 est.≈1 in 969K—Pigao5
NO Norway≈6 est.≈1 in 901K—Pigao7

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pigão

27 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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Pigao,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Pigao
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020126#137,553
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010124#135,593
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000118#132,259
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—21#188,821
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Pigao?
A machine transcription gives /pɪɡaʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Pigao have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Pigao in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pigao.
How common is the name Pigao?
In the United States, the national register counted 124 people named Pigao in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.

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The 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, “Pigao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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