Néto
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Néto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common surname. Recorded meaning: from neto ‘grandson’. Compare Nieto.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 148(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 633
- AOAngola≈1 in 721
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)
- #593 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 277 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 148 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil, 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 Neto in BR Brazil, US United States, PT Portugal and 3 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)
from neto ‘grandson’. Compare Nieto.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Néto 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 | #41 | ≈1,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 148 | 4K | Neto | 246 |
| AO Angola | #12 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 721 | 16 | Neto | 61 |
| PT Portugal | #81 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 633 | — | Neto | 148 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 277 | Neto | 4 |
| US United States | — | 1,645 | 1 in 202K | 1.8K | Neto | 277 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 281 | 1 in 12K | 281 | Neto | 24 |
| ST São Tomé & Príncipe | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 968 | 2.6K | — | 19 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; This page provides an overview of the most common surnames in São Tomé and Príncipe, compiled from official sources incl; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Néto is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In vec, clean
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Néto mean, and where does it come from?
- from neto ‘grandson’. Compare Nieto. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- In which country does Néto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 million people named Néto in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neto.
- How common is the name Néto?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,645 people named Néto in 2010, about 1 in 202 thousand residents.
- How common is Néto compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Néto is the 41st most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Néto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A9toThe 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, “Néto” — the 41st most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.