Desouza
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Desouza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Respelling of Portuguese de Souza.
- USUnited States1 in 50K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 65K
- UYUruguay1 in 440
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.
- Uruguay (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- 1 in 440 (inferred from the name graph)
7,700 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Respelling of Portuguese de Souza.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Desouza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | — | 7,700 | 1 in 440 | 7.7K | Desouza | 16 |
| US United States | — | 6,639 | 1 in 50K | 8.9K | Desouza | 304 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,680 | 1 in 12K | 3.7K | Desouza | 18 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,276 | 1 in 15K | 3.3K | Desouza | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,251 | 1 in 65K | 3.3K | Desouza | 78 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 618 | 1 in 14K | 618 | — | 4 |
| GY Guyana | — | 563 | 1 in 1.3K | 563 | Desouza | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | #886 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Desouza | 8 |
7,700 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public), counting the spelling de souza. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Francis deSouzab. 1970USAmerican businessperson and board member, President and Chief Executive Officer of Illumina, Inc.
- Tony DeSouzab. 1974PEPeruvian martial artist
- Kevin Desouzab. 1979INIndian-American academic
- Gena Desouzab. 1997THactor
- Paul DeSouzaactor
- Joseph DesouzaCAresearcher
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.9K | #3,871 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.6K | #5,255 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.4K | #7,003 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.3K | #3,201 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 392 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 46 | #579 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Desouza mean, and where does it come from?
- Respelling of Portuguese de Souza. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Desouza have the most bearers?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted about 7.7 thousand people named Desouza, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled desouza.
- Where is Desouza most common?
- Desouza is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 440 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Desouza?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 7,700 people named Desouza, about 1 in 440 residents.
- How common is Desouza compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Desouza is the 886th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/desouzaThe 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, “Desouza” — the 886th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.