Dos-Santos
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dos-Santos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 178(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 882
- GYGuyana1 in 3.5K
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.
- Uruguay (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 178 (inferred from the name graph)
19,008 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dossantos in ES Spain, CH Switzerland, US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dos-Santos 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 | 19,008 | 1 in 178 | 19K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 12,798 | 1 in 3.9K | 13K | DosSantos | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 9,533 | 1 in 882 | 9.5K | DosSantos | 3 |
| US United States | 6,137 | 1 in 54K | 9.1K | DosSantos | 33 |
| BR Brazil | 2,738 | 1 in 77K | 2.7K | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 214 | 1 in 3.5K | 214 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 5 | 1 in 11K | 5 | — | — |
19,008 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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: INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #623 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Dos-Santos have the most bearers?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Dos-Santos, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dos-Santos most common?
- Dos-Santos is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 178 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dos-Santos?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 19,008 people named Dos-Santos, about 1 in 178 residents.
What do you want to know about Dos-Santos?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dos-santosThe 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, “Dos-Santos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.