Cabreira
surname · Latin script
Meaning: mtn. peak, Portugal
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɐbɾejɾɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cabreira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 19K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 62as Cabrera
- ECEcuador1 in 248as Cabrera
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cabreira itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
144,559 named Cabrera
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cabrera in US United States, ES Spain, EC Ecuador.
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)
mtn. peak, Portugal
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cabreira 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 144,559as Cabrera | 1 in 315 | 145K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 83,621as Cabrera | 1 in 4K | 86K | Cabrera | 37 |
| ES Spain | 72,206as Cabrera | 1 in 693 | 72K | Cabrera | 18 |
| EC Ecuador | 68,146as Cabrera | 1 in 248 | 68K | Cabrera | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 55,000as Cabrera | 1 in 62 | 55K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 11,129 | 1 in 19K | 11K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 3,719as Cabrera | 1 in 1.4K | 3.7K | — | — |
144,559 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tomás Cabreirab. 1865PTPortuguese writer (1865-1918)
- Tomas Cabreira Juniorb. 1891PTPortuguese author (1891–1911)
- João Cabreirab. 1982PTPortuguese bicycle racer
- Araceli GondaESnot in their usual nameSpanish screenwriter
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 11K | #1,225 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 173 | #18,448 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 173 | #18,393 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 131 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Cabreira mean, and where does it come from?
- mtn. peak, Portugal Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Cabreira?
- A machine transcription gives /kɐbɾejɾɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Cabreira have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 145 thousand people named Cabrera, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cabreira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cabreira is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cabreira?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 11,129 people named Cabreira, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cabreiraThe 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, “Cabreira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.