Pelagius

given name · English · Latin script

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

Pelagius is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in English and Italian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Greek pelagos 'sea'; also forms from the saint name.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 15K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 40K
  • TTTrinidad & Tobago1 in 4.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈14K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
212 ●

43K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 11K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

PelayoLatin · English●43K records

Locally spelled Pelayo in US United States, PH Philippines, ES Spain and 11 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

from Greek pelagos 'sea'; also forms from the saint name

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Pelagius is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—15,50413K rec.—listedPelayo69
US United States—8,40226K rec.1 in 40K8.5KPelayo212
ES Spain—4,457△471 rec.1 in 11K5.5KPelayo48
AR Argentina—1,4060 rec.1 in 32K1.4K—1
AU Australia—561572 rec.——Pelayo37
CA Canada—463486 rec.——Pelayo30
GB United Kingdom—370388 rec.—listedPelayo27
TT Trinidad & Tobago#200335354 rec.——Pelayo1
IT Italy—152161 rec.——Pelayo5
PE Peru—130140 rec.——Pelayo14
BR Brazil—107—1 in 2M107——
DE Germany—90110 rec.—1Pelayo31

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Languages●

  • English1025%
  • Italian615%
  • German513%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1025%
Italian615%
German513%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Pelagius is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname25 records spelled Pelagius3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Italy, Spain

    Also written Pelagio, Pélagio

  • Spanish surname14 records spelled Pelagius28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese

    Also written Pelayo, Pelagio, Pelagiusz, Pelágio, Pelayö

  • French surname6 records spelled Pelagius11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, United Kingdom

    Also written Pelage, Pélage, Pelagi, Pelai, Pélagé

  • Finnish surname3 records spelled Pelagius4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Pelayo

  • Danish surname3 records spelled Pelagius8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Denmark, Spain

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Pelayo

  • Croatian surname2 records spelled Pelagius10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Pelayo, Pelagije, Пелайо

  • Czech surname2 records spelled Pelagius4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines

    Also written Pelayo

11 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●

Pelagius 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 English, pope

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, A male given name of historical usage.

    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●

20040060080010001200Pelagius of Novigrad, b. 270Pelagius, b. 354Pelagius I, b. 505Pelagius II, b. 520Pelagius of Cordova, b. 912Pelagius of Oviedo, b. 1050

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 7 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Pelagius
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VA Vatican CityHoly See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names)—2#35
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——
ES SpainNombres de Persona en Español (Becker, 2004)———
FR FranceDictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009)———
CD Congo - KinshasaWGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pelagius?
We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Pelagius (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Pelagius have the most bearers?
Pelagius is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled pelayo.
How common is Pelagius compared with other names?
In Trinidad & Tobago, Pelagius is the 200th most common surname of 8,890 surnames recorded there.
Is Pelagius a male or female name?
Pelagius is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Pelagius mean?
Recorded meaning: from Greek pelagos 'sea'; also forms from the saint name
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

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, “Pelagius” — the 200th most common surname in Trinidad & Tobago. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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