Puche
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of puchar:
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/puʧɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Puche is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 12K
- COColombia≈1 in 18K
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
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
4,337 people
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
inflection of puchar:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Puche 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 | #956 | 4,337 | 1 in 12K | 4.3K | Puche | 115 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Puche | 73 |
| VE Venezuela | #945 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Puche | 39 |
| FR France | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 91 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 359 | 1 in 127K | 359 | Puche | 39 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Puche | 26 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 187 | 1 in 18K | 187 | Puche | 13 |
4,337 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Puche is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In hts, spleen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, flea
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Juan Pucheb. 1695ESSpanish baroque painter
- Eliodoro Pucheb. 1885ESSpanish poet (1885-1964)
- Sofia Pucheb. 1916ESSpanish educationist and pianist (1916-2015)
- Fernando Pucheb. 1946ESSpanish businessman (1946–2024)
- Jaime Serra Pucheb. 1955MXMexican politician
- Miguel Puche Gutiérrezb. 1959ESSpanish writer
- Antonio Pucheb. 1972ESSpanish football player/manager
- Ayelén Stepnikb. 1975ARnot in their usual namefield hockey player
- Carme Puche i Moréb. 1977ESSpanish film director
- Jesús PucheESactor (died 1978)
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.3K | #1,218 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.3K | #1,218 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 359 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 187 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 105 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 104 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 95 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 91 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 57 | — |
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 Puche mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of puchar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Puche?
- A machine transcription gives /puʧɛ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Puche have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Puche, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled puche.
- How common is the name Puche?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,337 people named Puche, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Puche compared with other names?
- In Spain, Puche is the 956th most common surname of 395,154 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/pucheThe 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, “Puche” — the 956th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.