Cavalcante

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.

• Portuguese:/kɐvɐlkɐntɛ/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Cavalcante is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Peru, United States, Spain

  Also written Cavälcantë, Cavalcañte, Cävälcäntë, Cavalcañté

36 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.

Cavalcante is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, nome medievale di origine germanica

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Italian, Cognome divenuto nome di persona; caso non raro. Dall'abbreviazione Canle coln. Cantelli, Canti, Canto~ii.

  as a name·Nomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

• In Italian, do lat. med. caballicare, via particípio caballicans

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Italian, present participle of cavalcare

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Djalma Cavalcanteb. 1957BRBrazilian footballer and manager (1957-2014)
• Criolob. 1975BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian recording artist, singer, rapper
• Janaína Queiroz Cavalcanteb. 1988BRBrazilian association football player

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).

29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.

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

How do you pronounce Cavalcante?

In Portuguese /kɐvɐlkɐntɛ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Cavalcante mean?

Recorded meaning: Cognome divenuto nome di persona; da un'abbreviazione di Cavalcante/Cavalcanti.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Cavalcante?

In Brazil, the national register counted about 475 thousand people named Cavalcante, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cavalcante. After it come Portugal, United States, Italy and Montenegro; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Cavalcante most common?

Cavalcante is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 445 people carrying it.

How common is the name Cavalcante?

In Brazil, the national register counted 475,296 people named Cavalcante, about 1 in 445 residents.

How common is Cavalcante compared with other names?

In Brazil, Cavalcante is the 96th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.