| Surname | Meaning | Built from | Type | Say it | How common |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pérez | son of Pero | Pero+-ez | Patronymic | PEH-res | top 10 |
| Peña | rock, crag | peña (large rock), from Latin pinna | From a place | PEH-nyah | top 200 |
| Pacheco | uncertain | Pacheco (medieval given name, possibly a form of Francisco) | Patronymic | pah-CHEH-koh | top 200 |
| Padilla | small pan, hollow | Latin patella (small pan), for a hollow in the land | From a place | pah-DEE-yah | top 200 |
| Pech | tick | Yucatec pech (tick, the insect) | Indigenous | PECH | regional |
| Poot | to drill | Yucatec poot (to perforate, to drill); also a large yellow spider | Indigenous | POHT | regional |
| Popoca | it smokes | popōca (to smoke, to give off smoke) | Indigenous | poh-POH-kah | uncommon |
Browse all 140 surnames on the Mexican last names page, or see how the two-surname system works.