Moutinho
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitation name from a place called Moitinha, a dim
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Moutinho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 23K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 50K
- ESSpain1 in 407K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
9,255 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitation name from a place called Moitinha, a dim. of Moita. Movesian see Moses
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moutinho 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 | 9,255 | 1 in 23K | 9.3K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 214 | 1 in 1.6M | 234 | Moutinho | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | 169 | 1 in 50K | 169 | Moutinho | 4 |
| ES Spain | 123 | 1 in 407K | 123 | Moutinho | 7 |
| AR Argentina | 10 | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | — | — |
9,255 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Moutinho 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 Portuguese, Pejs.: It.: Moscardo, Moscardi.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Joaquim Augusto Moutinhob. 1869PTPortuguese writer
- Mário Moutinhob. 1877PTPortuguese physician
- Joaquim Moutinhob. 1951PTPortuguese rally driver (1951-2019)
- J.L. de Araujo Moutinhob. 1959BRBrazilian botanist
- Hélder Moutinhob. 1969PTPortuguese singer
- Pedro Moutinhob. 1976PTPortuguese vocalist
- Hugo Moutinhob. 1982ROPortuguese footballer
- João Moutinhob. 1986PTPortuguese association football player (born 1986)
- João Moutinhob. 1998PTPortuguese association football player (born 1998)
- Alexandra MoutinhoPTresearcher
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 9.3K | #1,398 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 234 | #85,854 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 214 | #86,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 190 | #90,252 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 169 | #7,196 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 123 | #23,796 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 123 | #23,693 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Moutinho come from?
- habitation name from a place called Moitinha, a dim. of Moita. Movesian see Moses Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Moutinho mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitation name from a place called Moitinha, a dim.
- In which country does Moutinho have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Moutinho, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Moutinho most common?
- Moutinho is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 23 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Moutinho?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 9,255 people named Moutinho, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moutinhoThe 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, “Moutinho”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.