Peru

loc · Spanish · Latin script

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

Peru is a name, most frequently recorded in Peru. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: drinking; rescuing; swelling.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru1 in 96◐
  • CLChile1 in 3.9K
  • BOBolivia1 in 6.4K

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

≈1.1K ●

across 3 countries

Sources
86 ●

4.6K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 46K ◐

Spain

Meaning & origin●

drinking; rescuing; swelling. the sun; fire; ocean.

Sources 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Peru is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru881,087536 rec.——Peru29
CL Chile13,05012 rec.——Peru5
CO Colombia1,63113 rec.——Peru5
MX Mexico1,512972 rec.——Peru26
AR Argentina1,383401 rec.—75Peru25
ES Spain1,095△159 rec.1 in 46K1.1KPeru39
BO Bolivia1,0483 rec.——Peru5
PA Panama3313 rec.——Peru1
VE Venezuela30745 rec.——Peru6
BR Brazil29515 rec.—64Peru17
UY Uruguay2374 rec.——Peru2
PT Portugal4913 rec.——Peru7

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Languages●

  • Spanish911K31%
  • English83K3%
  • Italian1.1K1%
  • Portuguese3751%
  • French2101%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish910,55331%
English82,6493%
Italian1,1481%
Portuguese3751%
French2101%

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◐

Peru is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname7.0K records spelled Peru9 spellings in the group

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

    Also written PeroU, Pérou, Péru, Perù, Pérù

  • English given name6.2K records spelled Peru14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Pe-Ru, Perù, Pêrú, Perú, Péru

  • Hindi given name4.1K records spelled Peru18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh

    Languages: Hindi, English, Telugu

    Also written Peeru, পেরু, ପୀର, পের, ପୀରୁ

  • a separate name2.0K records spelled Peru3 spellings in the group

    Also written Perú, Péru

  • French given name1.2K records spelled Peru11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Pero, Péro, Perú, Peró, Përô

  • Italian name146 records spelled Peru5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Perù, Perú

48 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●

Peru 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 English, city, IL; city. IN

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, republic, S. America

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In German, from the place name Peru

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In fax, alternative form of pero (“but”)

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

  • In English, A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Peru. Capital and largest city: Lima.

    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.

Over time●

01020301920194019601980200024 · 1978

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Peru in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1920–2013
Yearrecords
19201
19221
19232
19261
19291
19321
19331
19342
19351
19363
19373
19381
19394
19402
19417
19427
19435
19444
19456
194610
194711
19485
19492
19506
195110
195211
19537
19544
19556
195617
19578
195811
195916
196011
196111
19629
196312
196411
19658
196615
19676
196814
19697
19706
197113
197214
197310
19748
19756
19767
197714
197824
19798
19804
19817
19827
198312
19849
198516
19868
19879
19883
19898
19908
199112
19929
199310
199412
199515
19963
199711
19981
20001
20132

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 74 years between 1920–2013. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Andrea Peru, b. 1962Olivier Peru, b. 1977Peru Magdalena, b. 1980Peru Ansorena, b. 1990Martin Bidaur, b. 1996Peru Abarrategi, b. 1997

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 27 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Peru
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#2,695
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—968#1,295
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020925#27,591
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010818#29,019
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000797#28,256
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—534#8,768
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951229—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961224—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971212—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981206—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941197—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991185—

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 136 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Peru?
We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Peru (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
In which country does Peru have the most bearers?
Peru is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled peru.
What does the name Peru mean?
Recorded meaning: drinking; rescuing; swelling.
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About this data

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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, “Peru”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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