American Family Name Origins:
Pacheco
Frequency: (8576)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Spanish and Portuguese: from a personal name of uncertain, possibly pre-Roman, origin.
FOREBEARS: Lieutenant of Engineers Romualdo Pacheco, a native of Guanajuato, Mexico, went to CA in 1825 as an aide-decamp to Governor Echeandía. His son. also called Romualdo Pacheco was born in 1831 in Santa Barbara, CA, and went on to become governor of CA.
GIVEN NAMES: Spanish 35%; Portuguese 9%. Jose (174), Manuel (146), Carlos (82), Juan (79), Luis (70), Ramon (32), Rafael (28), Jorge (26), Jesus (24), Raul (24), Ana (23), Miguel (23); Joao (8), Paulo (5), Duarte (2), Fernandes (2), Agostinho, Albano, Anabela, Armanda, Joaquim, Marcio, Seraphine, Vasco.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
