Koutu
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaʊtu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Koutu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1Kas Couto(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.3Kas Couto
- ESSpain1 in 14Kas Couto
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Koutu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- 1 in 174K (inferred from the name graph)
167,874 named Couto
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Couto in BR Brazil, US United States, PT Portugal and 1 more.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Koutu 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 | #157 | 167,874as Couto | 1 in 1.3K | 168K | Couto | 203 |
| PT Portugal | #111 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Couto | 142 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,694as Couto | 1 in 14K | 3.7K | Couto | 101 |
| MZ Mozambique | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 3 | — | 19 |
| US United States | — | 3,066as Couto | 1 in 108K | 3.1K | Couto | 240 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,836as Couto | 1 in 1.8K | 1.8K | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 32 | 1 in 174K | 32 | — | 3 |
167,874 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Koutu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, genitive/dative singular of kout
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Māori, promontory, point (of land)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 32 | #33,072 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Koutu?
- A machine transcription gives /kaʊtu/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Koutu have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 168 thousand people named Couto, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Koutu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Koutu is densest in Finland — about 1 in 174 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Koutu?
- In Finland, the national register counted 32 people named Koutu, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.
- How common is Koutu compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Koutu is the 157th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Koutu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/koutuThe 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, “Koutu” — the 157th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.