Fagundes
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/faɡũdʒis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fagundes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 9.7K
- ARArgentina1 in 85K
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈98,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fagundes 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 | #158 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 368 | Fagundes | 179 |
| AO Angola | #692 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Fagundes | 8 |
| US United States | — | 1,667 | 1 in 200K | 1.7K | Fagundes | 212 |
| PT Portugal | #450 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | listed | Fagundes | 65 |
| AR Argentina | — | 534 | 1 in 85K | 534 | Fagundes | 30 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 260 | 1 in 13K | 260 | Fagundes | 15 |
| GY Guyana | — | 32 | 1 in 23K | 32 | — | — |
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: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
- João Álvares Fagundesb. 1460PTPortuguese explorer
- Peregrino Júniorb. 1898BRnot in their usual namejournalist, doctor, literary critic and Brazilian writer (1898-1983)
- Manoel de Aguiar Fagundesb. 1907BRBrazilian footballer (1907-1953)
- Lygia Fagundes Tellesb. 1918BRBrazilian novelist and short-story writer (1918–2022)
- Arlindo Fagundesb. 1945PTPortuguese film director
- Antônio Fagundesb. 1949BRBrazilian actor
- Luis Carlos Fagundes Ruasb. 1969BRBrazilian politician
- Paulo Vítor Fagundes dos Anjosb. 1988BRBrazilian association football player
- Bruno Fagundesb. 1989BRBrazilian actor
- Matheus Nunes Fagundes de Araújob. 2001BRBrazilian 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 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 184K | #191 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,611 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #17,040 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,180 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 534 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 260 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 32 | #593 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Fagundes?
- A machine transcription gives /faɡũdʒis/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Fagundes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 98 thousand people named Fagundes in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fagundes.
- How common is the name Fagundes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,667 people named Fagundes in 2010, about 1 in 200 thousand residents.
- How common is Fagundes compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Fagundes is the 158th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fagundes?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fagundesThe 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, “Fagundes” — the 158th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.