Coelho
surname · Latin script
Meaning: rabbit
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Coelho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 91st most common surname.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 263(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 331
- UYUruguay1 in 1.7K
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)
- Sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 263 (inferred from the name graph)
639,315 people
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
rabbit
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Coelho 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 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 263 | — | Coelho | 175 |
| AO Angola | #54 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 1 | Coelho | 44 |
| FR France | — | ≈6,300 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 |
| CH Switzerland | #584 | 1,479 | 1 in 5.7K | 1.5K | Coelho | 68 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Coelho is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
rabbit; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Coimbra, Portugal, Livorno, London
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Galician, reintegrationist spelling of coello
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)
- Nicolau Coelhob. 1460PTPortuguese navigator and explorer (1460-1504)
- Preguinhob. 1905BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer (1905-1979)
- Ruy Guerrab. 1931PTnot in their usual nameBrazilian-Mozambican film director and actor (born 1931)
- Paulo Coelhob. 1947BRBrazilian lyricist and novelist (born 1947)
- Humberto Coelhob. 1950PTPortuguese footballer and manager
- Susie Coelhob. 1953GBactress, author, and businesswoman
- Elzo Coelhob. 1961BRBrazilian footballer
- Pedro Passos Coelhob. 1964PTformer Prime Minister of Portugal
- Flávia Coelhob. 1980BRBrazilian singer
- Victor Vinícius Coelho dos Santosb. 1993BRBrazilian association football player
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 35 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 59 | #26,349 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 27 | #50,825 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 25 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21 | #106,978 |
Reference works 4
- 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
- What does the name Coelho mean, and where does it come from?
- rabbit Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- In which country does Coelho have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 639 thousand people named Coelho, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coelho.
- How common is the name Coelho?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 639,315 people named Coelho, about 1 in 331 residents.
- How common is Coelho compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Coelho 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/coelhoThe 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, “Coelho” — the 91st most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.