Paes
surname · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Paes is a surname, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Pelagio.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.8K◐
- USUnited States1 in 849K
- PTPortugal1 in 11K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈119K ●
- Sources
- 177 ●
- 1 in 1.8K ◐
across 9 countries
59K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
Pelagio
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #170 | 117,884△ | 56K rec. | 1 in 1.8K | 118K | Paes | 177 |
| PT Portugal | #603 | 760 | 181 rec. | — | — | Paes | 54 |
| US United States | — | 392 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 849K | 475 | Paes | 140 |
| AR Argentina | — | 333 | 0 rec. | 1 in 137K | 333 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 288△ | 32 rec. | 1 in 60K | 288 | Paes | 20 |
| IN India | — | 216 | 166 rec. | 1 in 6.1M | 216 | Paes | 27 |
| PH Philippines | — | 124 | 115 rec. | — | — | Paes | 9 |
| ES Spain | — | 123 | 154 rec. | 1 in 407K | 123 | Paes | 33 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 117 | 65 rec. | — | — | Paes | 39 |
| BE Belgium | — | 98△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 120K | 98 | — | 17 |
| IT Italy | — | 50 | 29 rec. | — | — | Paes | 16 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 46 | 15 rec. | — | — | Paes | 10 |
Roughly 118K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 1.8K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese187K92%
- Spanish5.7K3%
- English3.5K2%
- ptbr1.9K1%
- French1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 186,790 | 92% |
| Spanish | 5,650 | 3% |
| English | 3,464 | 2% |
| ptbr | 1,883 | 1% |
| French | 1,081 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Paes is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, acronym of Prueba de Aprendizajes y Aptitudes para Egresados de Educación Media, a national exam taken annually by high school students
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, a surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lmo, town, village
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, the meshes of sin
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, ieee a Ae
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 2 |
| 1901 | 1 |
| 1911 | 2 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1941 | 15 |
| 1951 | 11 |
| 1961 | 10 |
| 1971 | 12 |
| 1981 | 14 |
| 1991 | 8 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sidónio Paisb. 1872PTnot in their usual nameassassinated Portuguese president (1872-1918)
- Abraham Paisb. 1918NLnot in their usual nameDutch-American physicist and science historian (1918–2000)
- Cesar Paesb. 1955BRBrazilian film director
- Josh Paisb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Dira Paesb. 1968BRBrazilian actress
- Eduardo Paesb. 1969BRBrazilian politician and former Mayor of Rio de Janeiro
- Leander Paesb. 1973INIndian tennis player
- Juliana Paesb. 1979BRBrazilian actress
- Matteo Paisb. 1991ITnot in their usual nameItalian researcher
- Maarten Paesb. 1998NLDutch-Indonesian footballer
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 41 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Paes?
- We estimate roughly 119 thousand people bear Paes (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Paes have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 118 thousand people bear Paes in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled paes.
- Where is Paes most common?
- Paes is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is Paes compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Paes is the 170th most common surname of 444,951 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Paes mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pelagio
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Paes” — the 170th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.