Nobre

surname · Latin script

Meaning: noble (pertaining to nobility)

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

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

Nobre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 2.1K
  • UYUruguay1 in 12K

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 (measured from records)

99,637 people

Sources
170 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

noble (pertaining to nobility)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nobre 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 Nobre is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#24699,6371 in 2.1K100KNobre170
PT Portugal#178≈5,500 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Nobre126
AO Angola#445≈1,200 est.≈1 in 27K1Nobre18
FR France—≈690 est.≈1 in 99K66Nobre5
UY Uruguay—2721 in 12K272Nobre20
CH Switzerland—1601 in 53K160Nobre26

99,637 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Nobre is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Brazil

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Nobré

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Nobrè

  • Russian name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Нобре

45 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)

Nobre 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.

  • nobre, de boas maneiras; Brasil, Portugal

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

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)

1850190019502000António Nobre, b. 1867José Freitas Nobre, b. 1921Marlos Nobre, b. 1939Carlos A. Nobre, b. 1951Fernando Nobre, b. 1951Anna Christina Nobre, b. 1963Paulo Nobre, b. 1968Dudu Nobre, b. 1973Márcio Nobre, b. 1980Edson Nobre, b. 1980

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

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Nobre
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—100K#279
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—272—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024160#7,546
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971120—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198175—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199166—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196147—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19516—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19414—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19312—
AO AngolaWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—1#295
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921——

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Nobre mean, and where does it come from?
noble (pertaining to nobility) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Nobre?
A machine transcription gives /nobʁɛ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Nobre have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 100 thousand people named Nobre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nobre.
How common is the name Nobre?
In Brazil, the national register counted 99,637 people named Nobre, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
How common is Nobre compared with other names?
In Brazil, Nobre is the 246th 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, “Nobre” — the 246th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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