Cabaço
surname · Latin script
Meaning: gourd (fruit)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cabaço is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Portugal than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 9.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 125K
- ESSpain1 in 126K
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.
- Portugal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cabaco in PT Portugal, ES Spain, FR France 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)
gourd (fruit)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cabaço 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | #454 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Cabaco | 48 |
| ES Spain | — | 397 | 1 in 126K | 397 | Cabaco | 51 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Cabaco | 8 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 562K | — | Cabaco | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Cabaco | 57 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 27 | 1 in 125K | 27 | Cabaco | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | Cabaco | 6 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Cabaço mean, and where does it come from?
- gourd (fruit) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Cabaço have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Cabaço in Portugal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cabaco.
- How common is the name Cabaço?
- In Spain, the national register counted 397 people named Cabaço, about 1 in 126 thousand residents.
- How common is Cabaço compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Cabaço is the 454th most common surname of 45,564 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/caba%C3%A7oThe 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, “Cabaço” — the 454th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.