Paez

At the 2020 census, 10,853 Americans bore the surname Paez — 3,248th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 27,500.

By the numbers

People: 10,853
Rank: 3,248th
How common: 1 in 27,500
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Anglicization of Spanish Páez, of Galician origin, patronymic form of Paio (“Pelagio”), from Latin Pelagius.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Paez described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 90.1%
White, not Hispanic 6.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.06%

Notable people called Paez

José Antonio Páez (1790–1873)president of Venezuela
Kendry Páez (born 2007)Ecuadorian footballer
Fito Páez (born 1963)Argentine musician
Pedro Páez (1564–1622)Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia
Guillermo Páez (born 1945)Chilean footballer
Federico Páez (1876–1974)President of Ecuador
Richard Páez (born 1952)Venezuelan footballer

People named Paez with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.