Coutinho
surname · Latin script
Meaning: small fortification
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kowtiɲu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Coutinho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 945(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.2K
- ARArgentina1 in 38K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- 1 in 945 (inferred from the name graph)
223,947 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
small fortification
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #152 | 223,947 | 1 in 945 | 224K | Coutinho | 197 |
| PT Portugal | #124 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Coutinho | 136 |
| IN India | — | 2,165 | 1 in 613K | 2.2K | Coutinho | 101 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 145 | Coutinho | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,186 | 1 in 38K | 1.2K | Coutinho | 46 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 367 | 1 in 23K | 367 | Coutinho | 39 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 264 | 1 in 13K | 264 | Coutinho | 20 |
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). 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)
- Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinhob. 1869PTPortuguese aviator (1869-1959)
- Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinhob. 1871PTPortuguese politician (1871-1955)
- Eduardo Coutinhob. 1933BRBrazilian film director (1933-2014)
- Cláudio Coutinhob. 1939BRBrazilian football manager (1939-1981)
- Rita Cadillacb. 1954BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian dancer and singer
- Zenaldo Coutinhob. 1961BRBrazilian lawyer
- Claire Coutinhob. 1985GBBritish politician and Conservative MP
- Bruno Coutinhob. 1986BRBrazilian association football player
- Philippe Coutinhob. 1992BRBrazilian association football player
- Douglas Coutinhob. 1994BRBrazilian association football player
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)
Attested in 35 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 224K | #165 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.6K | #57 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.2K | #2,959 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 367 | #3,580 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 264 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 154 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 145 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 133 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 7 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- 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?
- A machine transcription gives /kowtiɲu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Coutinho have the most bearers?
- 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.
- Where is Coutinho most common?
- Coutinho is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 945 people carrying it.
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coutinhoThe 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, “Coutinho” — the 152nd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.