Colaço
surname · Latin script
Meaning: irmão de leite; Amsterdam, London, Portugal, Brasil
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Colaço is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 22K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 102K
- INIndia1 in 375K
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
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
9,832 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Colaco in IN India, US United States.
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)irmão de leite; Amsterdam, London, Portugal, Brasil
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Colaço 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 | 9,832 | 1 in 22K | 9.8K | — | — |
| IN India | 3,535 | 1 in 375K | 3.5K | Colaco | 22 |
| US United States | 254 | 1 in 1.3M | 283 | Colaco | 34 |
| CH Switzerland | 82 | 1 in 102K | 82 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | 29 | 1 in 1.7M | 29 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
9,832 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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alexandre Rey Colaçob. 1854PTPortuguese musician (1854–1928)
- Jorge Colaçob. 1868PTPortuguese artist (1868-1942)
- Branca de Gonta Colaçob. 1880PTPortuguese writer (1880-1945)
- Alice Rey Colaçob. 1890PTPortuguese painter, modernist illustrator, lyric singer, set designer and costume designer (1890–1978)
- Amélia Rey Colaçob. 1898PTPortuguese actress (1898-1990)
- Ana de Gonta Colaçob. 1903PTPortuguese sculptor and feminist
- Isabel de Magalhães Colaçob. 1926PTfirst Portuguese female Doctor of Law,First woman to perform functions of a legal-constitutional nature in Portugal, under the qualification of a member of the State Council
- Rogério Colaçob. 1968PTresearcher, full professor, Portuguese scientist, pioneered Nanotriobiology in Portugal, materials engineer
- Ana Colaçob. 1971PTresearcher, deep sea biologist
- Christopher Colaçob. 1987DEGerman jazz pianist, record producer (born 1987)
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 82 | #12,870 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 29 | #64,710 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29 | #64,358 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Colaço mean?
- Recorded meaning: irmão de leite; Amsterdam, London, Portugal, Brasil
- In which country does Colaço have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 9.8 thousand people named Colaço, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Colaço most common?
- Colaço is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Colaço?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 9,832 people named Colaço, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cola%C3%A7oThe 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, “Colaço”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.