Nagô
surname · Latin script
Meaning: someone of Yoruba descent, especially a descendant of slaves brought to Brazil
Nagô is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- ESSpain≈1 in 35M
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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
4 people
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 Nago in US United States, BR Brazil, ES Spain 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)someone of Yoruba descent, especially a descendant of slaves brought to Brazil
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nagô 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | 4 | 1 in 1.3M | 4 | Nago | 4 |
| ES Spain | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 35M | 7 | Nago | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 98 | Nago | 24 |
| PE Peru | — | — | — | Nago | 12 |
| US United States | — | — | 125 | Nago | 20 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | 22 | Nago | 18 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | — | Nago | 3 |
4 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Nagô 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 French, alternative spelling of Nagot
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 Nagô mean, and where does it come from?
- someone of Yoruba descent, especially a descendant of slaves brought to Brazil Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Nagô have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 4 people named Nagô, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nago.
- Where is Nagô most common?
- Nagô is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nagô?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 4 people named Nagô, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nagô?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nag%C3%B4The 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, “Nagô”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.