Charrua
surname · Latin script
Meaning: American people (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ʃaʁuɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Charrua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Portugal than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 15Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
- BRBrazil1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Portugal (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈690 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Charrua
- Portuguese:/ʃaʁuɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/tʃarwa/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)American people
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Charrua is found
(measured from records)Charrua 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | #923 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Charrua | 53 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Charrua | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 166 | 1 in 1.3M | 166 | Charrua | 30 |
| AR Argentina | — | 23 | 1 in 2M | 23 | — | — |
| DE Germany | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 5M | — | Charrua | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 1 | — | — |
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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Charrua mean, and where does it come from?
- American people Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Charrua?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ʃaʁuɐ/; in Spanish /tʃarwa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Charrua?
- Mondonomo estimates about 691 people named Charrua in Portugal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled charrua. After it come Angola, Brazil, Argentina and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Charrua?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 166 people named Charrua, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Charrua compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Charrua is the 923rd most common surname of 45,564 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/charruaThe 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, “Charrua” — the 923rd most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.