Áraujo

surname · Latin script

Áraujo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Araújo.

  • BRBrazil≈1 in 130(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay1 in 200
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 500

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,700,000 people, est.

#172 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
378 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 125 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ÁraujoLatin(measured from records)
АраухоCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Araujo in BR Brazil, VE Venezuela, PE Peru and 5 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 Spanish Araújo.

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Áraujo 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 Áraujo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#14≈1,700,000 est.≈1 in 125949Araujo267
VE Venezuela#101≈50,000 est.≈1 in 569—Araujo78
MX Mexico#341≈45,000 est.≈1 in 2.9K826Araujo197
AR Argentina#23229,1931 in 1.6K29KAraujo119
PE Peru#168≈26,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Araujo87
PT Portugal#46≈22,000 est.≈1 in 496—Araujo166
UY Uruguay#3516,9231 in 20017KAraujo70
PY Paraguay#135≈11,000 est.≈1 in 658—Araujo40

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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Áraujo mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Araújo. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Wiktionary.
In which country does Áraujo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 million people named Áraujo in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled araujo.
How common is the name Áraujo?
In Argentina, the national register counted 29,193 people named Áraujo, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
How common is Áraujo compared with other names?
In Brazil, Áraujo is the 14th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Áraujo” — the 14th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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