Nascimento
surname · Latin script
Meaning: religious byname from Portuguese nascimento ‘birth’, ‘nativity’ (Late Latin najchnenmm, from nasci ‘to be bom’)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/na.siˈmẽ.to/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Nascimento is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Angola than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common surname.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 790(inferred from the name graph)
- AOAngola≈1 in 2.4K
- GYGuyana1 in 8.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nascimento itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Angola (inferred from the name graph)
- #173 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 791 (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
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)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)religious byname from Portuguese nascimento ‘birth’, ‘nativity’ (Late Latin najchnenmm, from nasci ‘to be bom’). This was one of the epithets of the Virgin Mary {Maria do Nascimento), and was also used as a given name for children bom at Christmas.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nascimento 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AO Angola | #34 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 4 | Nascimento | 56 |
| PT Portugal | #71 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 791 | listed | Nascimento | 142 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 81 | Nascimento | 7 |
| US United States | — | 2,829 | 1 in 118K | 3.6K | Nascimento | 293 |
| BR Brazil | #9 | 2,318as Nasimento | 1 in 91K | 2.7K | Nascimento | 263 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 519 | 1 in 16K | 519 | Nascimento | 47 |
| GY Guyana | — | 89 | 1 in 8.4K | 89 | — | — |
| LU Luxembourg | #3 | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Nascimento | 13 |
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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Nascimento 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 Portuguese, birth
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Milton Nascimentob. 1942BRBrazilian singer-songwriter and musician
- Fabíula Nascimentob. 1978BRBrazilian actress
- André Nascimentob. 1979BRvolleyball player
- Matheus Leite Nascimentob. 1983BRBrazilian footballer
- Jefferson Nascimentob. 1988BRBrazilian footballer
- Jemersonb. 1992BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
- Kenedyb. 1996BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Rúben Vinagreb. 1999PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player
- Igor Thiagob. 2001BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer (born 2001)
- Matheus Nascimentob. 2004BRBrazilian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.6M | #13 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,842 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,179 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,628 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 519 | #2,485 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 100 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 89 | #536 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 37 | — |
| AO Angola | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 4 | #35 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nascimento mean, and where does it come from?
- religious byname from Portuguese nascimento ‘birth’, ‘nativity’ (Late Latin najchnenmm, from nasci ‘to be bom’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nascimento?
- In Portuguese /na.siˈmẽ.to/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Nascimento have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Nascimento in Angola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nascimento.
- How common is the name Nascimento?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,829 people named Nascimento in 2010, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
- How common is Nascimento compared with other names?
- In Angola, Nascimento is the 34th most common surname of 23,432 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nascimentoThe 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, “Nascimento” — the 34th most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.