Antunes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Antonio/Anthony
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɐ̃tũʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Antunes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Portugal it is the 54th most common surname.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 402(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 4.3K
- AOAngola≈1 in 5.9K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 402 (inferred from the name graph)
≈49,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Antonio/Anthony
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Antunes 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 | #156 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 985 | Antunes | 198 |
| PT Portugal | #54 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 402 | listed | Antunes | 169 |
| FR France | — | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 901 | Antunes | 3 |
| AO Angola | #117 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 1 | Antunes | 33 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,355 | 1 in 19K | 2.4K | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | #892 | 1,395 | 1 in 6K | 1.4K | Antunes | 52 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 476 | 1 in 7.1K | 476 | — | — |
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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- João Antunesb. 1643PTPortuguese architect (1643-1712)
- Ernesto Melo Antunesb. 1933PTPortuguese politician (1933-1999)
- António Lobo Antunesb. 1942PTPortuguese writer (1942-2026)
- Zicob. 1953BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player and manager
- Arnaldo Antunesb. 1960BRBrazilian musician and writer
- Paulo Thiagob. 1981BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian martial artist
- Vitorino Antunesb. 1987PTPortuguese footballer
- Amaro Antunesb. 1990PTPortuguese bicycle racer
- David Carreirab. 1991FRnot in their usual namePortuguese singer, actor and model
- João Carvalhob. 1997PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player (born 1997)
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)
Attested in 39 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 302K | #129 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.4K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.4K | #769 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 941 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 901 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 585 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 476 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 48 | — |
| AO Angola | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #131 |
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
- What does the name Antunes mean, and where does it come from?
- from Antonio/Anthony Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Antunes?
- A machine transcription gives /ɐ̃tũʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Antunes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Antunes in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled antunes.
- How common is the name Antunes?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 2,355 people named Antunes, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Antunes compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Antunes is the 156th 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/antunesThe 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, “Antunes” — the 156th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.