Pax
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pax is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Latinized surname meaning 'peace'; used for Fried.
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latinized surname meaning 'peace'; used for Fried.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pax counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 952 | Pax | 161 |
| AU Australia | — | 1 | Pax | 33 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Pax | 39 |
| DE Germany | — | listed | Pax | 49 |
| BR Brazil | — | 439 | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the de-munich-vornamen register. 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)
Pax 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, A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Latin for 'Peace of Christ'
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Roman personification of peace
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, Latinized form of Fried-
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Swedish, dibs (to claim a stake to something); used as a noun with the verbs få “get, receive” and ha “have”, or as a verb; att paxa.
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)
- Ferdinand Albin Paxb. 1858PLGerman botanist and university teacher (1858–1942)
- Ferdinand Albert Paxb. 1885DEGerman zoologist (1885-1964)
- Paulette Paxb. 1886FRFrench actress (1886–1942)
- Wolfgang Paxb. 1912DEGerman linguist and catholic theologian (1912-1993)
- Bill Cosgroveb. 1918AUnot in their usual nameAustralian rules footballer
- Augustin Deleanub. 1944ROnot in their usual nameRomanian footballer (1944-2014)
- Pax Whiteheadb. 1973USAmerican basketball player
- Pax Jolie-Pittb. 2003VNadopted son of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
- Pax Ahimsa GethenUSAmerican Wikimedian
- Pax WassermannAmerican editor and producer
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(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 952 | #10,819 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 260 | #10,819 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 80 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 75 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 73 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 72 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 72 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 66 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 64 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 63 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2014 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Pax mean, and where does it come from?
- Latinized surname meaning 'peace'; used for Fried. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Pax have the most bearers?
- Pax is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled pax.
What do you want to know about Pax?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paxThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Pax”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.