Alcântara
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Alcântara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 29th most common surname. Alcântara is also written Алкантара in Cyrillic.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 220(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.2K
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- #913 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 348 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 220 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Alcântara in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alcantara in BR Brazil, MX Mexico, PH Philippines and 3 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Alcântara is found
(measured from records)Alcântara 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #143 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 103 | Alcantara | 187 |
| PH Philippines | #48 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Alcantara | 152 |
| MX Mexico | #231 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 1.3K | Alcantara | 193 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #29 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 220 | — | Alcantara | 65 |
| PE Peru | #193 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Alcantara | 86 |
| ES Spain | #328 | 14,020 | 1 in 3.6K | 14K | Alcantara | 136 |
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: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Alcântara is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, a civil parish of the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Iuri Alcântarab. 1980BRBrazilian martial artist
- Thiago Alcántarab. 1991ESSpanish association football player
- Rafinhab. 1993BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (born 1993)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Alcântara?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Alcântara in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alcantara. After it come Philippines, Mexico, Dominican Republic and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Alcântara?
- In Spain, the national register counted 14,020 people named Alcântara, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Alcântara compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Alcântara is the 143rd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alcântara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alc%C3%A2ntaraThe 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, “Alcântara” — ranked 18203rd in Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.