Barbosa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Barbosa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish, from Portuguese.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 245(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 329
- COColombia≈1 in 1.6K
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)
- #360 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 363 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 245 (inferred from the name graph)
≈870,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Spanish, from Portuguese.
Sources 2
- A dictionary of surnames
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barbosa 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 | #24 | ≈870,000 est. | ≈1 in 245 | 661 | Barbosa | 273 |
| PT Portugal | #52 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 329 | — | Barbosa | 179 |
| CO Colombia | #209 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 30 | Barbosa | 152 |
| US United States | — | 18,106 | 1 in 18K | 19K | Barbosa | 363 |
| PH Philippines | #962 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Barbosa | 61 |
| UY Uruguay | #361 | 1,512 | 1 in 2.2K | 1.5K | Barbosa | 38 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 18K | — | 14 |
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; the co-datosgov-candidates register; A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Barbosa 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.
In Italian, feminine singular of barboso
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)
- Duarte Barbosab. 1480PTPortuguese explorer and writer (1480–1521)
- Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocageb. 1765PTPortuguese writer
- Ruy Barbosab. 1849BRBrazilian politician, writer and jurist (1849-1923)
- Moacir Barbosab. 1921BRBrazilian footballer (1921–2000)
- Leandro Barbosab. 1982BRBrazilian basketball player (born 1982)
- Roberto Firminob. 1991BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Ricardo Domingos Barbosa Pereirab. 1993PTPortuguese association football player (born 1993)
- Gabriel Barbosab. 1996BRBrazilian association football player (born 1996)
- Danilo Barbosab. 1996BRBrazilian association football player
- Igor Paixãob. 2000BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
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 45 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.7M | #18 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 19K | #1,892 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 18K | #1,992 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,462 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.5K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 30 | #86 |
| 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)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Barbosa mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish, from Portuguese. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Barbosa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 866 thousand people named Barbosa in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barbosa.
- How common is the name Barbosa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,106 people named Barbosa in 2010, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Barbosa compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Barbosa is the 24th 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/barbosaThe 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, “Barbosa” — the 24th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.