Caçao
surname · Latin script
Caçao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guatemala than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From kakaw. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 21Kfew records
- ECEcuador≈1 in 29K
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.
- Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Cacao in PH Philippines, BR Brazil, GT Guatemala 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 kakaw. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Cited for this meaning 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Caçao 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT Guatemala | #392 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Cacao | 20 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Cacao | 25 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,295 | 1 in 163K | 1.3K | Cacao | 42 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 25 | Cacao | 19 |
| PT Portugal | #928 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Cacao | 29 |
| RE Réunion | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Cacao | 1 |
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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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 Caçao mean, and where does it come from?
- From kakaw. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Caçao have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Caçao in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cacao.
- How common is the name Caçao?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,295 people named Caçao, about 1 in 163 thousand residents.
- How common is Caçao compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Caçao is the 392nd most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ca%C3%A7aoThe 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, “Caçao” — the 392nd most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.