Colpo

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: colpus

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kolpu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Colpo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 150K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 555K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 764K

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)

1,415 people

Sources
75 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 150K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

colpus

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Colpo is read(measured from records)

Colpo is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Portuguese46%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Colpo in Portuguese.

  • English25%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Colpo in English.

  • Spanish13%

    colpus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French6.1%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Colpo in French.

  • Italian5.4%

    do germânico falado alpino kolbe/kolp, alho; indica produtor e mercador de alho

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

    blow, knock, shock

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Colpo 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.

Where Colpo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,4151 in 150K1.4K——
US United States1681 in 2M170Colpo13
AR Argentina821 in 555K82—1
CH Switzerland111 in 764K11—1
BE Belgium41 in 2.9M4—1

1,415 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Çolpo

30 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalPrezado(a) Colpo,Dear Colpo, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Colpo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Colpo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.4K#6,702
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020170#110,517
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010168#106,096
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000152#108,153
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—82—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202411#56,728
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20084#118,018
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 Colpo mean, and where does it come from?
colpus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Colpo?
A machine transcription gives /kolpu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Colpo have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Colpo, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Colpo most common?
Colpo is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 150 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Colpo?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,415 people named Colpo, about 1 in 150 thousand residents.

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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, “Colpo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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