Almeida

surname · Latin script

Meaning: numerous places, including a town in the province of Beira Baixa, so called from the Arabic def

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/almedɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Almeida is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Portugal than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 119(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 545
  • AOAngola≈1 in 681

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.

Portugal (inferred from the name graph)

≈87,000 people, est.

#196 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
409 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 119 (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AlmeidaLatin(measured from records)
АлмейдаCyrillic(measured from records)
ΑλμέίνταGreek(measured from records)
알메이다Hangul(measured from records)
ალმეიდაGeorgian(measured from records)

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)

numerous places, including a town in the province of Beira Baixa, so called from the Arabic def. art. al + ma’ida plat¬ eau, (low) hill.

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Almeida 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 Almeida is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PT Portugal#16≈87,000 est.≈1 in 119—Almeida225
AO Angola#10≈48,000 est.≈1 in 6814Almeida63
EC Ecuador#47531,0061 in 54531KAlmeida71
FR France—≈19,000 est.≈1 in 3.5K535—7
US United States—16,7601 in 20K18KAlmeida409
UY Uruguay—10,6541 in 31811K——
CH Switzerland—3,2661 in 2.6K3.3KAlmeida105

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Almeida is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador

    Also written Älmeïda, Älmëidä, Almëidä, Alméida, Almeïda

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Älmeïdä, Àlmeida, Alméida, Älmėïdä

  • French surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Portugal

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Almeïda, Almeidã, Ąĺmeìdā, Alméida, Almëida

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Alméida

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Almèìdà

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written ́almeida, Àlmeidà, Almeïdä

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Croatia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Алмейда, Алмеида

65 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Francisco de Almeida, b. 1450Laurindo Almeida, b. 1917Juan Almeida Bosque, b. 1927June Almeida, b. 1930Luis Cubilla, b. 1940Joaquim de Almeida, b. 1957Hugo Almeida, b. 1984Nani, b. 1986Miguel Lopes, b. 1986André Almeida, b. 1990

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalPrezado(a) Almeida,Dear Almeida, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Almeida,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 54 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Almeida
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202431K#127
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202018K#1,974
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201017K#2,166
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200014K#2,452
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—11K—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243.3K#226
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991535—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2024263—
AO AngolaWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—4#27
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Almeida come from?
numerous places, including a town in the province of Beira Baixa, so called from the Arabic def. art. al + ma’ida plat¬ eau, (low) hill. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
How do you pronounce Almeida?
A machine transcription gives /almedɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
What does the name Almeida mean?
Recorded meaning: numerous places, including a town in the province of Beira Baixa, so called from the Arabic def.
What are other forms of the name Almeida?
In the etymology graph, Almeda is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Almeida have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 87 thousand people named Almeida in Portugal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled almeida.
How common is the name Almeida?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 31,006 people named Almeida in 2024, about 1 in 545 residents.
How common is Almeida compared with other names?
In Portugal, Almeida is the 16th most common surname of 45,564 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, “Almeida” — the 16th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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