Bárbosa
surname · Latin script
Bárbosa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish, from Portuguese.
- CVCape Verde≈1 in 160(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 170
- PTPortugal≈1 in 240
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)
- #360 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 363 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 160 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cape Verde, 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 Barbosa in BR Brazil, MX Mexico, US United States and 2 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 Spanish, from Portuguese.
Cited for this meaning 2
- A dictionary of surnames
- Wiktionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bárbosa is found
(measured from records)Bárbosa 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 | #24 | ≈1,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 173 | 661 | Barbosa | 273 |
| PT Portugal | #52 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 239 | — | Barbosa | 179 |
| CO Colombia | #209 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 30 | Barbosa | 152 |
| MX Mexico | #410 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 733 | Barbosa | 181 |
| US United States | — | 18,106 | 1 in 18K | 19K | Barbosa | 363 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 519 | 18K | — | 14 |
| CV Cape Verde | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 160 | 7 | — | 30 |
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); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; 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 Bárbosa mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish, from Portuguese. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bárbosa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 million people named Bárbosa in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barbosa. After it come Portugal, Colombia, Mexico and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bárbosa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,106 people named Bárbosa in 2010, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Bárbosa compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Bárbosa is the 24th 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/b%C3%A1rbosaThe 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, “Bárbosa” — ranked 5798th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.