Antunes

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from Antonio/Anthony (Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/ɐ̃tũʃ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain

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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 280(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil≈1 in 1.2K
  • AOAngola≈1 in 1.8Kfew records

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)

≈170,000 people, est.

Record sources
243 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 276 (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Antunes

  • Portuguese:/ɐ̃tũʃ/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Spanish:/antunɛs/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

from Antonio/Anthony

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Antunes is found

(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.

Where Antunes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#156≈170,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K985Antunes198
PT Portugal#54≈39,000 est.≈1 in 276listedAntunes169
AO Angola#117≈22,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K1Antunes33
FR France—≈6,700 est.≈1 in 10K901Antunes3
AR Argentina—2,3551 in 19K2.4K—1
CH Switzerland#8921,3951 in 6K1.4KAntunes52
UY Uruguay—4761 in 7.1K476——

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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Portugal, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Antunès, Ãntunes, Antunés, Ańtůnes

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Antúnes

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Antúnes

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Антунес, Антунеш, Antunesh, Antúnes

55 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1940196019802000António Lobo Antunes, b. 1942Zico, b. 1953Vitorino Antunes, b. 1987

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) Antunes,Dear Antunes, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Antunes,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.

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?
It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ɐ̃tũʃ/; in Spanish /antunɛs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Antunes?
Mondonomo estimates about 174 thousand people named Antunes in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled antunes. After it come Portugal, Angola, France and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
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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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” — ranked 3827th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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