Araujo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: minor places so called, for example in Coimbra, Elvas, Estremoz, Lisbon, Moncorvo, Monsao, Serpa, Setubal, and Villa Verde
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Araujo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common surname.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 70(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 200
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 570
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)
- #172 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 378 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 70 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil, 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)
minor places so called, for example in Coimbra, Elvas, Estremoz, Lisbon, Moncorvo, Monsao, Serpa, Setubal, and Villa Verde. The surname is also relatively common in Spain in the form Araujo.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Araujo 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 | #14 | ≈3,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 70 | 949 | Araujo | 267 |
| VE Venezuela | #101 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 570 | — | Araujo | 78 |
| AR Argentina | #232 | 29,193 | 1 in 1.6K | 29K | Araujo | 119 |
| PE Peru | #168 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Araujo | 87 |
| US United States | — | 18,856 | 1 in 18K | 20K | Araujo | 378 |
| UY Uruguay | #35 | 16,923 | 1 in 200 | 17K | Araujo | 70 |
| PT Portugal | #46 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 714 | — | Araujo | 166 |
| PY Paraguay | #135 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 707 | — | Araujo | 40 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Leonardo Márquezb. 1820MXnot in their usual nameMexican general (1820-1913)
- Arturo Araujob. 1878SVPresident of El Salvador (1878-1967)
- Carlos Araujob. 1981ARArgentine footballer
- Oswaldo Vizcarrondob. 1984VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan footballer
- Néstor Araujob. 1991MXMexican association football player
- Héberb. 1991BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (born 1991)
- Sergio Araujob. 1992ARArgentine player
- Miguel Araujob. 1994PEPeruvian association football player
- Julián Araujob. 2001USMexican-American soccer player
- Marcelo Pitalugab. 2002BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
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 43 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.5M | #14 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 29K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 20K | #1,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,908 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 17K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,624 |
| US United States | wru 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 Araujo come from?
- minor places so called, for example in Coimbra, Elvas, Estremoz, Lisbon, Moncorvo, Monsao, Serpa, Setubal, and Villa Verde. The surname is also relatively common in Spain in the form Araujo. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What does the name Araujo mean?
- Recorded meaning: minor places so called, for example in Coimbra, Elvas, Estremoz, Lisbon, Moncorvo, Monsao, Serpa, Setubal, and Villa Verde.
- In which country does Araujo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 million people named Araujo in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled araujo.
- How common is the name Araujo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 29,193 people named Araujo, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Araujo compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Araujo is the 14th most common surname of 424,864 surnames 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/araujoThe 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, “Araujo” — the 14th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.