Pigo

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register), 2002

/piɡo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain

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Pigo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 36 people, counted by IBGE.

  • ARArgentina1 in 3.2M(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 5.9M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

36 people

Record sources
21 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 3.2M (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

How to pronounce Pigo

  • Spanish:/piɡo/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Portuguese:/piɡu/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Italian:/piɡo/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

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

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Pigo is found

(measured from records)

Pigo 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 Pigo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil361 in 5.9M36Pigo21
AR Argentina141 in 3.2M14Pigo17
US United States——listedPigo7
MX Mexico———Pigo5
GB United Kingdom——12Pigo5
IT Italy———Pigo5
PH Philippines———Pigo1

36 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)

Pigo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Pigò

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Pigò

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Pígo, Pigò

22 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)

Pigo is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, kind of freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae (Rutilus pigus)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In roa-gal, beak, bill (of bird)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Welsh, to prick, to sting

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In roo, chicken feces

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swahili, beating

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, magpie

    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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Ms Pigo,
InformalHi Pigo,

Evidence

(measured from records)

5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Pigo?
It depends on the language: in Spanish /piɡo/; in Portuguese /piɡu/; in Italian /piɡo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Pigo?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 36 people named Pigo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pigo. After it come Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Pigo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pigo is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 3.2 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pigo?
In Brazil, the national register counted 36 people named Pigo, about 1 in 5.9 million 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, “Pigo” — ranked 131575th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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