Perù

surname · Latin script

Perù is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 30K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 407K
  • ARArgentina1 in 606K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

818 people, 2010

Sources
5 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Korean

남아메리카 서북부 태평양 연안에 있는 공화국. 수도는 리마.

Sources 1

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Perù 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.

Where Perù is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8181 in 407K925—1
IN India5341 in 2.5M534——
AR Argentina751 in 606K75——
BR Brazil641 in 3.3M64——
ES Spain621 in 807K1.1K——
GY Guyana251 in 30K25——
BE Belgium101 in 1.2M10——

818 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Perù is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Chile, Spain, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Polish

    Also written Peru, Perú, Péru

  • Italian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Peru, Perú

  • English given name14 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

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

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Péru, Peru

  • Russian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Перу, Пэру, Peru, Пару, Paru

2 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(measured from records)

Perù 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 Maltese, Peru (a country in South America; official name: Repubblika tal-Perù)

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

  • In Italian, Peru (a country in South America)

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Perù under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Perù have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 818 people named Perù, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Perù most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Perù is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 30 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Perù?
In the United States, the national register counted 818 people named Perù in 2010, about 1 in 407 thousand residents.

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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, “Perù”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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