Àlmeida
surname · Latin script
Àlmeida is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country, where it is the 100th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic الْمَائِدَة (al-māʔida, “the plateau”).
- UYUruguay1 in 318(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 545
- ARArgentina1 in 3.7K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- 1 in 318 (inferred from the name graph)
31,006 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Almeida in AR Argentina, EC Ecuador, US United States and 2 more.
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)Borrowed from Arabic الْمَائِدَة (al-māʔida, “the plateau”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- A dictionary of surnames
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Àlmeida 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #100 | 31,006 | 1 in 545 | 31K | Almeida | 70 |
| US United States | — | 16,760 | 1 in 20K | 18K | Almeida | 205 |
| AR Argentina | #399 | 12,185 | 1 in 3.7K | 12K | Almeida | 83 |
| UY Uruguay | #50 | 10,654 | 1 in 318 | 11K | Almeida | 65 |
| ES Spain | #745 | 9,148 | 1 in 5.5K | 9.1K | Almeida | 125 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3,266 | 1 in 2.6K | 3.3K | — | 25 |
31,006 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Àlmeida mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic الْمَائِدَة (al-māʔida, “the plateau”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Àlmeida have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Àlmeida, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled almeida.
- Where is Àlmeida most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Àlmeida is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 318 people — even though Ecuador holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Àlmeida?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 31,006 people named Àlmeida in 2024, about 1 in 545 residents.
- How common is Àlmeida compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Àlmeida is the 100th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A0lmeidaThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Àlmeida” — the 100th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.