Mascareñhas
surname · Latin script
Mascareñhas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Portuguese Mascarenhas.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 4.9K
- INIndia1 in 322K
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)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
43,283 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Mascarenhas in BR Brazil, IN India, US United States 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 Portuguese Mascarenhas.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mascareñhas 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 | #288 | 43,283 | 1 in 4.9K | 43K | Mascarenhas | 156 |
| IN India | — | 4,113 | 1 in 322K | 4.1K | Mascarenhas | 102 |
| PT Portugal | #318 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Mascarenhas | 91 |
| AO Angola | #577 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1 | Mascarenhas | 12 |
| US United States | — | 675 | 1 in 493K | 922 | Mascarenhas | 169 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 75 | 1 in 45K | 75 | Mascarenhas | 9 |
| CV Cape Verde | #102 | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Mascarenhas | 12 |
43,283 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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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 Mascareñhas mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Portuguese Mascarenhas. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Mascareñhas have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Mascareñhas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mascarenhas.
- How common is the name Mascareñhas?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 43,283 people named Mascareñhas, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Mascareñhas compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Mascareñhas is the 288th 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, “Mascareñhas” — the 288th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.