Lòbò
surname · Latin script
Lòbò is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish lobo (“wolf”). Doublet of lupus and wolf.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 550(measured from records)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 1.2K
- PTPortugal≈1 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 259 (measured from records)
- 1 in 550 (inferred from the name graph)
86,675 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lobo in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, VE Venezuela and 4 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)Borrowed from Spanish lobo (“wolf”). Doublet of lupus and wolf.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lòbò 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 | #217 | 86,675 | 1 in 2.4K | 87K | Lobo | 216 |
| AR Argentina | #312 | 19,646 | 1 in 2.3K | 20K | Lobo | 88 |
| VE Venezuela | #326 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Lobo | 62 |
| CO Colombia | #486 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 5 | Lobo | 94 |
| CR Costa Rica | #118 | 9,268 | 1 in 550 | 9.3K | Lobo | 70 |
| HN Honduras | #139 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Lobo | 54 |
| PT Portugal | #164 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Lobo | 114 |
86,675 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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 Lòbò mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish lobo (“wolf”). Doublet of lupus and wolf. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Lòbò have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 87 thousand people named Lòbò, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lobo.
- Where is Lòbò most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lòbò is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 550 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lòbò?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 86,675 people named Lòbò, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Lòbò compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Lòbò is the 217th 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/l%C3%B2b%C3%B2The 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, “Lòbò” — the 217th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.