Britto
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɾitu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Britto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 11K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 52K
- COColombia≈1 in 53K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
19,285 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Britto 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 | #328 | 19,285 | 1 in 11K | 19K | Britto | 163 |
| US United States | — | 1,307 | 1 in 255K | 1.4K | Britto | 170 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 3 | Britto | 47 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Britto | 36 |
| AR Argentina | — | 601 | 1 in 76K | 601 | Britto | 42 |
| PY Paraguay | #872 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Britto | 10 |
| DM Dominica | — | 6 | 1 in 12K | 6 | — | — |
19,285 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
Britto 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 Latin, An inhabitant of Britain, a Briton.
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)
- Sérgio Brittob. 1923BRBrazilian actor (1923-2011)
- Jack Brittob. 1926PKPakistani field hockey player (1926-2013)
- Carlos Ayres Brittob. 1942BRBrazilian judge and former Minister of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil from 2003 to 2012
- Roberto Brittob. 1951BRBrazilian doctor and politician, former mayor of Jequié
- Antônio Brittob. 1952BRBrazilian Journalist, Politician and Former Governor of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (1995-1999)
- Romero Brittob. 1963BRBrazilian artist
- Danielb. 1994BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer (born 1994)
- Ethan Brittob. 2000GBGibraltarian association football player
- Bernardo BrittoBRfilm director
- Ruth BrittoUSAmerican mathematical physicist
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 30 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 19K | #849 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,801 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,098 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 601 | — |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 6 | #221 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 3 | #113 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Britto?
- A machine transcription gives /bɾitu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Britto have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Britto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled britto.
- Where is Britto most common?
- Britto is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Britto?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 19,285 people named Britto, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Britto compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Britto is the 328th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Britto?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brittoThe 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, “Britto” — the 328th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.