Embalo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: rock, sway (act of rocking)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ẽbalu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Embalo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea-Bissau than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • GWGuinea-Bissau≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 17K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 179K

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.

Guinea-Bissau (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,400 people, est.

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Guinea-Bissau, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

rock, sway (act of rocking)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Embalo 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 Embalo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GW Guinea-Bissau#3≈1,400 est.≈1 in 1.4K30KEmbalo18
PT Portugal#784≈620 est.≈1 in 17K—Embalo30
ES Spain—2181 in 229K218Embalo16
AO Angola—≈150 est.≈1 in 211K—Embalo5
KE Kenya—≈69 est.≈1 in 779K—Embalo6
CH Switzerland—471 in 179K47Embalo3

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: A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Embalo is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Portugal, Belgium, Senegal

    Also written Embaló

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United Kingdom, Portugal

    Also written Embalò, Embaló

  • Danish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Also written Embaló

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Embaló

19 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Embalo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of embalar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Filomena Embaló, b. 1956Umaro Sissoco Embaló, b. 1972Alfayaya Embalo, b. 1977José Embalo, b. 1993

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

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Embalo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—218#15,549
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—218#15,486

Reference works 1

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 Embalo mean, and where does it come from?
rock, sway (act of rocking) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Embalo?
A machine transcription gives /ẽbalu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Embalo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Embalo in Guinea-Bissau, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled embalo.
How common is the name Embalo?
In Spain, the national register counted 218 people named Embalo, about 1 in 229 thousand residents.
How common is Embalo compared with other names?
In Guinea-Bissau, Embalo is the 3rd most common surname of 221 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, “Embalo” — the 3rd most common surname in Guinea-Bissau. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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