Cavalcante
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cavalcante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 96th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Cognome divenuto nome di persona; da un'abbreviazione di Cavalcante/Cavalcanti.
- BRBrazil1 in 445(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 758K
- MEMontenegro≈1 in 3.9K
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
- 199 (measured from records)
- 1 in 445 (inferred from the name graph)
475,296 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(measured from records)
Cognome divenuto nome di persona; da un'abbreviazione di Cavalcante/Cavalcanti.
Sources 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cavalcante 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 | #96 | 475,296 | 1 in 445 | 475K | Cavalcante | 199 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Cavalcante | 44 |
| US United States | — | 439 | 1 in 758K | 693 | Cavalcante | 194 |
| PT Portugal | #835 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Cavalcante | 40 |
| AR Argentina | — | 261 | 1 in 174K | 261 | — | 2 |
| ME Montenegro | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Cavalcante | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 72 | 1 in 117K | 72 | Cavalcante | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 65 | 1 in 52K | 65 | — | — |
475,296 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); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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 nameDizionario 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 nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, do lat. med. caballicare, via particípio caballicans
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, present participle of cavalcare
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)
- Anthony Cavalcanteb. 1897USlawyer and politician (1897-1966)
- Cid Teixeirab. 1924BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian historian, lawyer and university professor
- Clenílton Ataíde Cavalcanteb. 1935BRassociation football player
- Olívio Cavalcante do Nascimentob. 1941BRperson identified in the Museu da Pessoa collection
- Evilásio Fariasb. 1952BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian politician
- Djalma Cavalcanteb. 1957BRBrazilian footballer and manager (1957-2014)
- Tom Cavalcanteb. 1962BRBrazilian actor
- Criolob. 1975BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian recording artist, singer, rapper
- Everton Cavalcanteb. 1982BRBrazilian association football player
- 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 475K | #99 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 693 | #35,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 439 | #48,160 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 354 | #54,522 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 261 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 72 | #14,223 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 65 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Cavalcante mean?
- Recorded meaning: Cognome divenuto nome di persona; da un'abbreviazione di Cavalcante/Cavalcanti.
- In which country does Cavalcante have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
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Query this name via API
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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, “Cavalcante” — the 96th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.