Coutinho

surname · Latin script

Meaning: small fortification (Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: CNE, 2026

/kowtiɲu/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain

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Coutinho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 223,947 people, counted by IBGE.

  • PTPortugal≈1 in 860(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 945
  • CVCape Verde≈1 in 3.2K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

223,947 people

Record sources
224 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 855 (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Coutinho

  • Portuguese:/kowtiɲu/(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)

small fortification

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Coutinho is found

(measured from records)

Coutinho 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 Coutinho is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#152223,9471 in 945224KCoutinho197
PT Portugal#124≈13,000 est.≈1 in 855—Coutinho136
IN India—2,1651 in 613K2.2KCoutinho101
FR France—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 54K145Coutinho4
AR Argentina—1,1861 in 38K1.2KCoutinho46
CH Switzerland—3671 in 23K367Coutinho39
UY Uruguay—2641 in 13K264Coutinho20
CV Cape Verde—≈170 est.≈1 in 3.2K1—10

223,947 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026). 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)

Coutinho is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Coûtiñhö, Coutiñho, Cöutinho

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Coutiñho

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Коутиньо, Коутинью

61 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)
1850190019502000Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, b. 1869Bruno Coutinho, b. 1986Philippe Coutinho, b. 1992

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) Coutinho,Dear Coutinho, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Coutinho,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Coutinho mean, and where does it come from?
small fortification Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Coutinho?
In Portuguese /kowtiɲu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Coutinho?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 224 thousand people named Coutinho, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coutinho. After it come Portugal, India, France and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Coutinho?
In Brazil, the national register counted 223,947 people named Coutinho, about 1 in 945 residents.
How common is Coutinho compared with other names?
In Brazil, Coutinho is the 152nd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Coutinho” — ranked 165th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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