Nuno
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nuno is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Portugal than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name. Recorded meaning: attested in the L forms Nunnius and Nonnius and is of un¬ certain origin.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 114(inferred from the name graph)
- AOAngola≈1 in 2.3K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 3.9K
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.
- Portugal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 114 (inferred from the name graph)
≈91,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
attested in the L forms Nunnius and Nonnius and is of un¬ certain origin. There may be some connection with Muno. Patrs.: Sp.: Nlihez. Port.; Nunes (also borne by Sefardic Jews, in which case it is an adoption of the non-Jewish name). Nuzzetti see John Nyberg see New
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nuno 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | #12 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 114 | listed | Nuno | 232 |
| MZ Mozambique | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 3 | — | 29 |
| AO Angola | #57 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 2 | Nuno | 49 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1.4K | Nuno | 241 |
| CH Switzerland | #391 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 3 | Nuno | 72 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,662 | 1 in 127K | 1.7K | Nuno | 119 |
| LU Luxembourg | #47 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Nuno | 20 |
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: the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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)
Nuno is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a medieval personal name, first attested in the Latin form Nunnus, of uncertain derivation.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of ぬの
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, ancestor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In car, moon
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nuno Álvares Pereirab. 1360PTPortuguese nobleman
- Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganzab. 1907ATDuke of Braganza (1907–1976)
- Marcelo Rebelo de Sousab. 1948PTnot in their usual namePortuguese politician and academic, former President of Portugal
- Nuno Nabiamb. 1966GWPrime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
- Nuno Bettencourtb. 1966PTPortuguese guitarist
- Nuno Espírito Santob. 1974PTPortuguese footballer and manager (born 1974)
- Nuno Valenteb. 1974PTPortuguese footballer
- Nuno Gomesb. 1976PTPortuguese footballer (born 1976)
- Nuno Tavaresb. 2000PTPortuguese association football player
- Nuno Mendesb. 2002PTPortuguese footballer (born 2002)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 56 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #5,832 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.4K | #1,104 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.4K | #7,448 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.4K | #3,019 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 140 | — |
| MZ Mozambique | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 3 | #50 |
| AO Angola | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #156 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Where does the name Nuno come from?
- attested in the L forms Nunnius and Nonnius and is of un¬ certain origin. There may be some connection with Muno. Patrs.: Sp.: Nlihez. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Nuno mean?
- Recorded meaning: attested in the L forms Nunnius and Nonnius and is of un¬ certain origin.
- Is Nuno a male or female name?
- Nuno is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Nuno have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 91 thousand people named Nuno in Portugal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nuno.
- How common is the name Nuno?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,662 people named Nuno in 2022, about 1 in 127 thousand residents.
- How common is Nuno compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Nuno is the 12th most common given name of 19,352 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nunoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nuno” — the 12th most common given name in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.