Pliego
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sheet (of paper)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pljeɣo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pliego is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 33K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 244K
- CVCape Verde≈1 in 15K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
1,533 people
Highest-authority source
Cape Verde, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sheet (of paper)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pliego 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 1,533 | 1 in 33K | 1.5K | Pliego | 86 |
| US United States | — | 1,366 | 1 in 244K | 1.4K | Pliego | 153 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 445K | — | Pliego | 10 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 349K | — | Pliego | 9 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Pliego | 13 |
| CV Cape Verde | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Pliego | 2 |
| MX Mexico | #923 | — | — | 365 | Pliego | 152 |
1,533 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Pliego 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 Basque, ( Lcc , Lar , Añ ), pligu ( Añ ). Pliego. "Pliego de papel, pliego bat paper " Lcc . Anbeste erresma paper, Errege serbitzen eskribitu, ta nere konzienzia garbitzeko, pliego bat eskribitu ezdet! Cb Eg III 229. Entregatu omen zion Tolosako Komandante armetakoari pliego bat. CartAnd 380.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francisco Pliegob. 1801MXMexican military personnel
- Emilio Pliegob. 1850ESSpanish photographer
- Ricardo Salinas Pliegob. 1965MXMexican businessman
- Paola Pliegob. 1994MXMexican-Uzbek female sabre fencer
- Patricia EscalanteMXnot in their usual nameMexican ornithologist
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.5K | #3,048 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.5K | #3,047 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,716 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,991 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 842 | #27,049 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 365 | #821 |
| US United States | wru 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
- What does the name Pliego mean, and where does it come from?
- sheet (of paper) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pliego?
- A machine transcription gives /pljeɣo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Pliego have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Pliego, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pliego.
- How common is the name Pliego?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,533 people named Pliego, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Pliego compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Pliego is the 923rd most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pliegoThe 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, “Pliego” — the 923rd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.