Curado
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: past participle of curar
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
/kuɾadu/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Curado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 7.9Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 46K
- BRBrazil1 in 67K
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)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
3,177 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)past participle of curar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Curado is read
(measured from records)Curado is one spelling over 4 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.
- Portuguese61%
past participle of curar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish22%
cured, healed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Curado in English.
- French6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Curado in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Curado 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 | — | 3,177 | 1 in 67K | 3.2K | Curado | 95 |
| PT Portugal | #525 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Curado | 72 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Curado | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,088 | 1 in 46K | 1.1K | Curado | 68 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 865K | — | Curado | 7 |
| LU Luxembourg | #674 | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Curado | 4 |
3,177 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)- Jorge Curado y Torreblancab. 1682ESInquisitor and bishop of Urgell, co-prince of Andorra (1682–1749)
- António Domingo Cortês da Silva Curadob. 1849botanical collector (1849 - 1904)
- Elisa de Paiva Curadob. 1858PTPortuguese writer, journal director and feminist (1858-1933)
- Rosângela Curadob. 1966BRBrazilian politician
- Andreia Curadob. 1999PTPortuguese association football player
- Silvia CuradoPTPortuguese geneticist
- Marilia CuradoPTresearcher ORCID id 0000-0001-6760-4675
- Elisa CuradoPTeditor
- Maria Paula CuradoBRresearcher
- Manuel CuradoESresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-2307-1760
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.2K | #3,250 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.1K | #4,111 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.1K | #4,109 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Curado mean, and where does it come from?
- past participle of curar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Curado?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /kuɾadu/; in Spanish /kuɾado/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Curado have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Curado, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled curado.
- How common is the name Curado?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,177 people named Curado, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Curado compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Curado is the 525th 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/curadoThe 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, “Curado” — the 525th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.