Candeias

loc · Latin script

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

Candeias is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil
  • PTPortugal

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
102 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Korean

브라질 바이아(Bahia) 주 동쪽에 있는 도시

Sources 1

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Candeias counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Candeias is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—4.5KCandeias79
PT Portugal——Candeias102
US United States—116—68
CH Switzerland—96—12
ES Spain—63—20
AR Argentina—32—22

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 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)

Candeias is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Candéias, Candeïas

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Candéias

31 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)

180018501900195020002050Manuel José Candeias, b. 1831Hermenegildo Candeias, b. 1934Mario Candeias, b. 1969Nuno Filipe Rafael Candeias, b. 1981Daniel Candeias, b. 1988Manuel Candeias, b. 2001

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)

Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Candeias
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—4.5K#2,455
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020116#145,028
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010115#144,141
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202496#11,432
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—63#37,877
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—63#37,783
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—32—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

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Candeias is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled candeias.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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, “Candeias”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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