Peixinho
surname · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of peixe
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Peixinho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 51K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 24K
- AOAngola≈1 in 169K
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)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
4,120 people
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
diminutive of peixe
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peixinho 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 | 4,120 | 1 in 51K | 4.1K | Peixinho | 73 |
| PT Portugal | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Peixinho | 38 |
| AO Angola | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Peixinho | 5 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | listed | Peixinho | 54 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Peixinho | 13 |
4,120 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
- Jorge Peixinhob. 1940PTPortuguese musician
- Solange Peixinhob. 1946BRBrazilian spongiologist
- Nuno Peixinhob. 1971PTprofessor at the Unidad de Astronomía, Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile
- Carol Peixinhob. 1985BRBrazilian entrepreneur and advertising person
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.1K | #2,627 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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
- What does the name Peixinho mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of peixe Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Peixinho have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Peixinho, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peixinho.
- How common is the name Peixinho?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,120 people named Peixinho, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peixinhoThe 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, “Peixinho”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.