Camoes

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Camos in Galicia, which is of uncertain etymology

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɐmuj̃ʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Camoes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 126K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 4.2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,685 people

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 126K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Camos in Galicia, which is of uncertain etymology. Var.: Camoens.

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Camoes 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 Camoes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,6851 in 126K1.7KCamoes3
ES Spain121 in 4.2M12—4
US United States——listedCamoes19
DE Germany———Camoes15
GB United Kingdom——listedCamoes7
PT Portugal———Camoes3
CH Switzerland———Camoes3
FI Finland———Camoes1

1,685 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. 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)

Camoes is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Camões

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Camões

27 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Camoes is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Luiz de, Portuguese poet

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Croatian, portugalski nacionalni pjesnik i jedan od najvećih epskih pjesnika Europe 16. st.; njegov ep Luzitanci (o Vasco da Gaminom putovanju u Indiju) oda su Portugalu i Portugalcima

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalPrezado(a) Camoes,Dear Camoes, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Camoes,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Camoes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.7K#5,718
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—12#109,635
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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

Where does the name Camoes come from?
Camos in Galicia, which is of uncertain etymology. Var.: Camoens. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
How do you pronounce Camoes?
A machine transcription gives /kɐmuj̃ʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
What does the name Camoes mean?
Recorded meaning: Camos in Galicia, which is of uncertain etymology.
In which country does Camoes have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Camoes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled camoes.
Where is Camoes most common?
Camoes is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 126 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Camoes?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,685 people named Camoes, about 1 in 126 thousand residents.

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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, “Camoes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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