Cerdeira
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/sexdejɾɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cerdeira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 54K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 43K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 76K
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)
- Record sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
3,926 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cerdeira 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.
3,926 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)Cerdeira is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, cherry tree
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)- Clemente Cerdeira Fernándezb. 1887ESSpanish diplomat
- Carmen Cerdeirab. 1958ESSpanish politician (1958-2007)
- António Pedro Cerdeirab. 1970PTPortuguese actor
- Pamela Cerdeirab. 1980MXMexican journalist, radio and television presenter
- Cláudio Daniel CerdeiraBRresearcher
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.9K | #2,735 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.2K | #3,900 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.2K | #3,899 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 581 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 110 | #10,217 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 40 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Cerdeira?
- A machine transcription gives /sexdejɾɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Cerdeira have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Cerdeira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cerdeira.
- Where is Cerdeira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cerdeira is densest in Spain — about 1 in 43 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cerdeira?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,926 people named Cerdeira, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
- How common is Cerdeira compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Cerdeira is the 526th most common surname of 45,564 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cerdeira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cerdeiraThe 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, “Cerdeira” — the 526th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.