Nevês
surname · Latin script
Nevês is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common surname. Recorded meaning: 1. religious byname, from the Marian title Maria das Neves ‘Mary of the Snows’ (see Nieves). 2.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 320(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 530
- UYUruguay1 in 2.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 339 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 322 (inferred from the name graph)
≈400,000 people, est.
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 Neves in BR Brazil, PT Portugal, US United States 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)1. religious byname, from the Marian title Maria das Neves ‘Mary of the Snows’ (see Nieves). 2. Galician and AsturianLeonese: habitational name from any of the places named Neves in the provinces of Pontevedra, Lugo, and A Coruna (Galicia), and Asturies.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nevês 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 | #68 | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 529 | 1.2K | Neves | 221 |
| PT Portugal | #43 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 322 | — | Neves | 176 |
| AO Angola | #49 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 1 | Neves | 44 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 383 | Neves | 6 |
| US United States | — | 4,997 | 1 in 67K | 5K | Neves | 339 |
| UY Uruguay | #243 | 1,546 | 1 in 2.2K | 1.5K | Neves | 34 |
| CV Cape Verde | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 2 | — | 33 |
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; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026). 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 Nevês mean, and where does it come from?
- 1. religious byname, from the Marian title Maria das Neves ‘Mary of the Snows’ (see Nieves). 2. 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 Nevês have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 400 thousand people named Nevês in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neves.
- How common is the name Nevês?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,997 people named Nevês in 2010, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Nevês compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Nevês is the 68th 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/nev%C3%AAsThe 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, “Nevês” — the 68th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.