Girão
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Girão is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 21K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 13K
- AOAngola≈1 in 130K
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
- 64 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
10,064 people
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 Girao in ES Spain, DE Germany.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Girão 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.
10,064 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname), counting the spelling girao. 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- João Rodrigues Girãob. 1558PTPortuguese Jesuit missionary to Japan and Macau
- António Luís Ferreira Carneiro de Vasconcelos Teixeira Girãob. 1823PTPortuguese writer (1823-1876)
- José Moura Girãob. 1840PTPortuguese restorer, painter (1840-1916)
- Eduardo Henrique Girãob. 1882BRBrazilian lawyer, thinker, politician, teacher (1882-1961)
- Raimundo Girãob. 1900BRBrazilian writer, historian, lawyer, politician (1900-1988)
- Antonio Girão Barrosob. 1914BRBrazilian journalist, poet, university teacher
- José Girão Pereirab. 1938PTPortuguese politician; member of the European Parliament
- Eliéser Girão Monteiro Filhob. 1955BRBrazilian politician
- Eduardo Girãob. 1972BRBrazilian politician and Senator of the Republic for the state of Ceará since 2019
- Tiago Girãob. 1984PTPortuguese rugby union footballer
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 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Girão have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Girão, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled girão.
- How common is the name Girão?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 10,064 people named Girão, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Girão compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Girão is the 967th most common surname of 45,564 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Girão?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gir%C3%A3oThe 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, “Girão” — the 967th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.