Abreu

surname · Latin script

Meaning: name Avredo, probably composed of the elements alb, alv elf + red counsel (cf

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/abɾew/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Abreu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 93rd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 185(inferred from the name graph)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 514
  • UYUruguay1 in 547

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)

≈320,000 people, est.

#987 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
347 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 185 (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AbreuLatin(measured from records)
АбреуCyrillic(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)

name Avredo, probably composed of the elements alb, alv elf + red counsel (cf. Alfred). The name was borne by a 7th-cent. Hispanic bishop.

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Where in the world(measured from records)

Abreu 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.

Where Abreu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#93≈320,000 est.≈1 in 657273Abreu223
DO Dominican Republic#20≈57,000 est.≈1 in 185—Abreu105
VE Venezuela#133≈40,000 est.≈1 in 724—Abreu91
PT Portugal#60≈20,000 est.≈1 in 514—Abreu156
US United States—17,9981 in 18K21KAbreu347
UY Uruguay#826,1941 in 5476.2KAbreu66

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Abreu is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Abreü, Abréu, Abreue, Abrëu, Abreú

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Portugal

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Abreù, Äbrêü, Abreü, Abrêu, Abréu

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Abrêu, ́abreu, Abréu

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Abreü

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Abreu 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.

  • Babia, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Cabo Verde, Coimbra, Portugal, Maroc

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

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)

1850190019502000Zequinha de Abreu, b. 1880José Antonio Abreu, b. 1939José Rijo, b. 1965Cláudia Abreu, b. 1970Diego Gutiérrez, b. 1974Sebastián Abreu, b. 1976Anderson, b. 1988Anna Abreu, b. 1990Ivan Cavaleiro, b. 1993Angel Gomes, b. 2000
  • Zequinha de Abreub. 1880BRBrazilian musician and composer (1880-1935)
  • José Antonio Abreub. 1939VEVenezuelan musician (1939-2018)
  • José Rijob. 1965DOnot in their usual nameDominican professional baseball player, pitcher
  • Cláudia Abreub. 1970BRBrazilian actress
  • Diego Gutiérrezb. 1974CUnot in their usual namecuban singer-songwriter
  • Sebastián Abreub. 1976UYUruguayan footballer and coach
  • Andersonb. 1988BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (born 1988)
  • Anna Abreub. 1990FIFinnish-Portuguese singer
  • Ivan Cavaleirob. 1993PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player
  • Angel Gomesb. 2000GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 2000)

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)

FormalPrezado(a) Abreu,Dear Abreu, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Abreu,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 41 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Abreu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—453K#102
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202021K#1,674
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201018K#2,008
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200013K#2,553
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—6.2K—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • 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)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Abreu come from?
name Avredo, probably composed of the elements alb, alv elf + red counsel (cf. Alfred). The name was borne by a 7th-cent. Hispanic bishop. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
How do you pronounce Abreu?
A machine transcription gives /abɾew/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
What does the name Abreu mean?
Recorded meaning: name Avredo, probably composed of the elements alb, alv elf + red counsel (cf.
In which country does Abreu have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 322 thousand people named Abreu in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abreu.
How common is the name Abreu?
In the United States, the national register counted 17,998 people named Abreu in 2010, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
How common is Abreu compared with other names?
In Brazil, Abreu is the 93rd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Abreu” — the 93rd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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