Cunhã

surname · Latin script

Meaning: girl, young woman

Cunhã is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 256(measured from records)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 318
  • AOAngola≈1 in 2.1K

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)

827,405 people

#660 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
309 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 256 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CunhãLatin(measured from records)
КуньяCyrillic(measured from records)
ΚούνιαGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cunha in BR Brazil, PT Portugal, US United States and 2 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)

girl, young woman

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cunhã 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 Cunhã is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#47827,4051 in 256827KCunha241
PT Portugal#30≈32,000 est.≈1 in 318—Cunha188
AO Angola#36≈16,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K1Cunha48
FR France—≈7,800 est.≈1 in 8.7K199Cunha5
US United States—5,1701 in 64K5.4KCunha309
UY Uruguay—1,3051 in 2.6K1.3K——

827,405 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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cunhã under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cunhã mean, and where does it come from?
girl, young woman Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Cunhã have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 827 thousand people named Cunhã, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cunha.
Where is Cunhã most common?
Cunhã is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 256 people carrying it.
How common is the name Cunhã?
In Brazil, the national register counted 827,405 people named Cunhã, about 1 in 256 residents.
How common is Cunhã compared with other names?
In Brazil, Cunhã is the 47th most common surname of 424,864 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, “Cunhã” — the 47th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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