Lombá
surname · Latin script
Lombá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Habitational surname from Portuguese and Galician Lomba, from Galician lomba (“mountain ridge”).
- ESSpain1 in 39K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 355K
- BRBrazil1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
4,144 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lomba in ES Spain, AR Argentina, US United States and 1 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)- Portugueseand(measured from records)
- Galicianlomba“mountain ridge”(measured from records)
Habitational surname from Portuguese and Galician Lomba, from Galician lomba (“mountain ridge”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lombá 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 | 4,144 | 1 in 51K | 4.1K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 1,284 | 1 in 39K | 1.3K | Lomba | 74 |
| US United States | 663 | 1 in 502K | 667 | Lomba | 66 |
| BE Belgium | 216 | 1 in 54K | 216 | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 128 | 1 in 355K | 128 | Lomba | 31 |
| UY Uruguay | 36 | 1 in 94K | 36 | Lomba | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | 24 | 1 in 350K | 24 | — | 1 |
4,144 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lombá mean, and where does it come from?
- Habitational surname from Portuguese and Galician Lomba, from Galician lomba (“mountain ridge”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Lombá have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Lombá, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lombá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lombá is densest in Spain — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lombá?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,144 people named Lombá, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lomb%C3%A1The 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, “Lombá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.