Lopes
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lopes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common surname. Recorded meaning: patronymic from the medieval personal name Lopo (from Latin lupus ‘wolf’).
- PTPortugal≈1 in 116(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 354
- AOAngola≈1 in 757
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)
- #381 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 367 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 116 (inferred from the name graph)
≈600,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic from the medieval personal name Lopo (from Latin lupus ‘wolf’).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lopes 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 | #25 | ≈600,000 est. | ≈1 in 354 | 459 | Lopes | 269 |
| PT Portugal | #14 | ≈89,000 est. | ≈1 in 116 | — | Lopes | 248 |
| AO Angola | #13 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 757 | — | Lopes | 65 |
| FR France | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 2.7K | Lopes | 7 |
| US United States | — | 18,310 | 1 in 18K | 18K | Lopes | 367 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 577 | 69K | — | 20 |
| CV Cape Verde | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 597 | 19 | — | 61 |
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 — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lopes is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, a surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
from Lopo < lobo; 'Lopo's son'
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, do lat. lupus, através de filius Lupici.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Lopez
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Breton, mal coordonné, massif
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Francisco Craveiro Lopesb. 1894PTPresident of Portugal (1894-1964)
- Amílcar Cabralb. 1924PTnot in their usual nameGuinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean politician (1924-1973)
- Pedro Santana Lopesb. 1956PTPortuguese lawyer and politician (born 1956)
- Wagner Lopesb. 1969BRBrazilian-Japanese association football player and manager
- Lisa Lopesb. 1971USAmerican singer and rapper (1971–2002)
- Laura Lopesb. 1978GBBritish art curator (born 1978); daughter of Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom
- Leila Lopesb. 1986AOAngolan beauty pageant titleholder
- Miguel Lopesb. 1986PTPortuguese footballer
- Silas Santos Silvab. 1992BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian economist
- Lucas Beraldob. 2003BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer (born 2003)
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 48 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.3M | #22 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 18K | #1,911 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 18K | #1,976 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,074 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 272 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 191 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 173 | — |
| CV Cape Verde | CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026) | 2026 | 19 | #4 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Lopes mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the medieval personal name Lopo (from Latin lupus ‘wolf’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lopes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 599 thousand people named Lopes in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lopes.
- What are other forms of the name Lopes?
- In the etymology graph, López is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Lopes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,310 people named Lopes in 2010, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Lopes compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Lopes is the 25th most common surname of 424,864 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, “Lopes” — the 25th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.