Monteiro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a hunter, moneiro
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mõtejɾu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Monteiro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common surname.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 221(inferred from the name graph)
- CVCape Verde≈1 in 634
- BRBrazil≈1 in 1.3K
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- #976 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 332 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 221 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
occupational name for a hunter, moneiro. This name is also found in western India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Monteiro 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 | #66 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 184 | Monteiro | 241 |
| PT Portugal | #25 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 221 | — | Monteiro | 202 |
| AO Angola | #25 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 4 | Monteiro | 51 |
| FR France | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 1.3K | — | 5 |
| US United States | — | 6,965 | 1 in 48K | 7.7K | Monteiro | 332 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 46K | — | 18 |
| CV Cape Verde | #1 | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 634 | 27 | Monteiro | 57 |
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 — Nomes (census name API); A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Monteiro is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, gamekeeper
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
hunting area guard
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Galician, hunter, huntsman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Monteiro Lobatob. 1882BRBrazilian writer (1882–1948)
- Hebe Camargob. 1929BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian recording artist, television host, actress and singer (1929–2012)
- Fernanda Montenegrob. 1929BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian actress and writer
- João César Monteirob. 1939PTPortuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic (1939-2003)
- António Mascarenhas Monteirob. 1944CVCape Verdean politician and former president of Cape Verde (1944-2016)
- Claudia Monteirob. 1961BRBrazilian tennis player
- Tiago Monteirob. 1976PTPortuguese professional racing driver
- Miguel Monteirob. 1980PTPortuguese footballer
- Telma Monteirob. 1985PTPortuguese judoka
- Felipe Augusto de Almeida Monteirob. 1989BRBrazilian 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 184 | #26,493 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 179 | #12,669 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 118 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 113 | #36,689 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 94 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 67 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 46 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 29 | #48,473 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 27 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 24 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 21 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Monteiro come from?
- occupational name for a hunter, moneiro. This name is also found in western India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Monteiro?
- A machine transcription gives /mõtejɾu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What does the name Monteiro mean?
- Recorded meaning: occupational name for a hunter, moneiro.
- In which country does Monteiro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 169 thousand people named Monteiro in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled monteiro.
- How common is the name Monteiro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,965 people named Monteiro in 2010, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Monteiro compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Monteiro is the 66th 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/monteiroThe 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, “Monteiro” — the 66th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.