Portes
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Portes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Catalan Portes, from portes, plural of porta (“door”).
- USUnited States1 in 485K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 13K
- UYUruguay1 in 45K
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
- 163 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
16,215 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Catalan Portes, from portes, plural of porta (“door”).
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Portes 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 | 16,215 | 1 in 13K | 16K | Portes | 5 |
| US United States | 686 | 1 in 485K | 963 | Portes | 163 |
| ES Spain | 323 | 1 in 155K | 323 | Portes | 21 |
| AR Argentina | 118 | 1 in 385K | 118 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 76 | 1 in 45K | 76 | — | — |
16,215 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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Portes is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, genitive singular of Port (“harbor”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of portar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active subjunctive of portō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, second-person singular present subjunctive of portar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite genitive plural of port
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, genitive singular of port
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Richard Portesb. 1941USBritish economist
- Alejandro Portesb. 1944CUAmerican sociologist
- Gil Portesb. 1945PHFilipino film director, film producer, screenwriter (1945–2017)
- Pascal Portesb. 1959FRFrench tennis player
- Alain Portesb. 1961FRFrench handball player
- Jean-Christophe Portesb. 1966FRFrench crime writer and journalist
- Jonathan Portesb. 1966GBBritish American economist
- Emilio Portesb. 1976MXMexican film director
- Thomas Portesb. 1985FRFrench politician
- Vicente Portes SalaESSpanish politician
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 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 16K | #935 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 963 | #26,649 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 686 | #33,316 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 441 | #45,651 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 323 | #11,367 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 323 | #11,359 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 118 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 76 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Portes mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Catalan Portes, from portes, plural of porta (“door”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Portes have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Portes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled portes.
- Where is Portes most common?
- Portes is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Portes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 16,215 people named Portes, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/portesThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Portes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.