Barrós

surname · Latin script

Barrós is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 1,027,857 people, counted by IBGE, which ranks it 49th. Recorded meaning: lived on a patch of muddy land or clay soil; cf. Bard 6. 2. nickname for someone with a birthmark or a spotty complexion, from Sp. barro spot, mark (LL varus). Barrós is also written Баррос in Cyrillic and Μπάρρος in Greek.

  • BRBrazil1 in 206(measured from records)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 340
  • AOAngola≈1 in 530

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 (measured from records)

1,027,857 people

#523 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
327 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 206 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Barrós in other scripts: Cyrillic and Greek

(measured from records)
BarrósLatin(measured from records)
БарросBarrós in Cyrillic(measured from records)
ΜπάρροςBarrós in Greek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Barros in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, PT Portugal and 4 more.

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)

lived on a patch of muddy land or clay soil; cf. Bard 6. 2. nickname for someone with a birthmark or a spotty complexion, from Sp. barro spot, mark (LL varus).

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Barrós is found

(measured from records)

Barrós 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 Barrós is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#421,027,8571 in 2061MBarros234
AO Angola#30≈72,000 est.≈1 in 5305Barros44
PT Portugal#50≈31,000 est.≈1 in 340—Barros157
AR Argentina#27520,7741 in 2.2K21KBarros113
CO Colombia#420≈12,000 est.≈1 in 4.6K18Barros113
EC Ecuador#29110,6961 in 1.6K11KBarros44
UY Uruguay#1403,2491 in 1K3.2KBarros52

1,027,857 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Barros

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Barros, Barroes, Barrös, Bärrös

  • French surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Portugal

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Barros, Barrõs, Bárros, Barrôs, Bärros

  • Hebrew surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Spain, Argentina

    Also written בארוס, Barros

2 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)

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Barrós under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Barrós mean, and where does it come from?
lived on a patch of muddy land or clay soil; cf. Bard 6. 2. nickname for someone with a birthmark or a spotty complexion, from Sp. barro spot, mark (LL varus). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Barrós?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.0 million people named Barrós, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barros. After it come Angola, Portugal, Argentina and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Barrós most common?
Barrós is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 206 people carrying it.
How common is the name Barrós?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,027,857 people named Barrós, about 1 in 206 residents.
How common is Barrós compared with other names?
In Brazil, Barrós is the 42nd 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, “Barrós” — ranked 49th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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