Peixoto

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

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

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 1.2K
  • USUnited States1 in 396K

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)

191,302 people

Sources
210 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Peixoto 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 Peixoto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#160191,3021 in 1.1K191KPeixoto210
PT Portugal#103≈8,700 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Peixoto123
FR France—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 30K318Peixoto4
AO Angola#346≈1,700 est.≈1 in 19K—Peixoto15
US United States—8391 in 396K998Peixoto201
CH Switzerland—5611 in 15K561Peixoto39
UY Uruguay—3361 in 10K336Peixoto26

191,302 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 Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)

Peixoto is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Portugal, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Peixôto

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Peixôto

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Peixôto, Peíxoto

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Peixôto

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia

    Also written Пейшоту, Peixôto

47 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Floriano Peixoto, b. 1839Afrânio Peixoto, b. 1876António Augusto Peixoto Correia, b. 1913Maurício Peixoto, b. 1921Cauby Peixoto, b. 1931Delfim Peixoto, b. 1941César Peixoto, b. 1980Tiago Apolónia, b. 1986Marcos Paullo, b. 1990Jairo Rodrigues, b. 1992

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

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Peixoto
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—191K#184
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020998#25,839
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010839#28,437
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000646#33,333
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024561#2,283
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971358—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981337—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—336—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991318—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195143—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194129—

Reference works 3

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

How do you pronounce Peixoto?
A machine transcription gives /pejʃɔtu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Peixoto have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 191 thousand people named Peixoto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peixoto.
Where is Peixoto most common?
Peixoto is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Peixoto?
In Brazil, the national register counted 191,302 people named Peixoto, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Peixoto compared with other names?
In Brazil, Peixoto is the 160th 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, “Peixoto” — the 160th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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