Brito
surname · Latin script
Meaning: province of Minho, or from any of the numerous other minor places with the same name, which is of uncertain origin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɾitu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brito is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common surname.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 270(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 363
- PTPortugal≈1 in 465
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)
- #510 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 356 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 270 (inferred from the name graph)
≈320,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
province of Minho, or from any of the numerous other minor places with the same name, which is of uncertain origin.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brito 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 | #52 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 663 | 518 | Brito | 244 |
| VE Venezuela | #63 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 363 | 596 | Brito | 94 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #36 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 270 | — | Brito | 82 |
| AR Argentina | #257 | 25,023 | 1 in 1.8K | 25K | Brito | 102 |
| PT Portugal | #67 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 465 | listed | Brito | 155 |
| EC Ecuador | #139 | 15,070 | 1 in 1.1K | 15K | Brito | 59 |
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); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Brito is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, ince of Minho, or from any of the numerous other minor places with the same name, which is of uncertain origin.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Portuguese, first-person singular present indicative of britar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
arcaic form of Brites
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Esperanto, a person from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, alternative form of Brittō
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)
- Filipe de Brito e Nicoteb. 1566PTadventurer, mercenary, and Governor of Syriam (1605-1613)
- Francisco Rodríguezb. 1945VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan boxer (1945–2024)
- Paulo Sérgio Bento Britob. 1968PTPortuguese football player/manager
- Bubistab. 1970CVnot in their usual nameCape Verdean association football player and coach
- Marco Luiz Britob. 1977BRBrazilian association football player
- Livia Britob. 1986CUCuban actress
- Augusto Limab. 1991BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian basketball player (born 1991)
- Socrates Britob. 1992DODominican baseball player for the Arizona Diamondbacks
- Michelle Larcher de Britob. 1993PTPortuguese tennis player
- Marob. 1994PTnot in their usual namePortuguese singer (1994-)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 31 countries.
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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Brito mean, and where does it come from?
- province of Minho, or from any of the numerous other minor places with the same name, which is of uncertain origin. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Brito?
- A machine transcription gives /bɾitu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Brito have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 319 thousand people named Brito in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brito.
- How common is the name Brito?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 25,023 people named Brito, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Brito compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Brito is the 52nd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/britoThe 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, “Brito” — the 52nd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.