Côelho
surname · Latin script
Côelho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 639,315 people, counted by IBGE, which ranks it 76th. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cõelho, coelho, from Vulgar Latin *cuniclus, from Latin cunīculus, from Ancient Greek κύνικλος (kúniklos), probably of Iberian origin; Compare Galician coello, S.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 200(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 331
- AOAngola≈1 in 890few records
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 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 196 (inferred from the name graph)
639,315 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Coelho in BR Brazil, PT Portugal, US United States 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
(measured from records)- Old Galician-Portuguesecõelho(measured from records)
- Vulgar Latin*cuniclus(measured from records)
- Latincunīculus(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekκύνικλοςkúniklos(measured from records)
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cõelho, coelho, from Vulgar Latin *cuniclus, from Latin cunīculus, from Ancient Greek κύνικλος (kúniklos), probably of Iberian origin; Compare Galician coello, Spanish conejo and Italian coniglio.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Côelho is found
(measured from records)Côelho 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 | #91 | 639,315 | 1 in 331 | 639K | Coelho | 231 |
| PT Portugal | #39 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 196 | — | Coelho | 175 |
| AO Angola | #54 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 891 | 1 | Coelho | 44 |
| FR France | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 770 | Coelho | 7 |
| US United States | — | 5,593 | 1 in 59K | 6.2K | Coelho | 335 |
| UY Uruguay | #306 | 1,959 | 1 in 1.7K | 2K | Coelho | 38 |
| CV Cape Verde | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 2 | — | 17 |
639,315 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026). 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 Côelho mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cõelho, coelho, from Vulgar Latin *cuniclus, from Latin cunīculus, from Ancient Greek κύνικλος (kúniklos), probably of Iberian origin; Compare Galician coello, S… Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Côelho?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 639 thousand people named Côelho, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coelho. After it come Portugal, Angola, France and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Côelho?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 639,315 people named Côelho, about 1 in 331 residents.
- How common is Côelho compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Côelho is the 91st 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/c%C3%B4elhoThe 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, “Côelho” — ranked 76th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.