Porto
loc · Latin script
Meaning: port; harbour (place on the coast at which ships can shelter or dock)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Porto is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- PTPortugal
- BRBrazil
- FIFinland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 298 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
port; harbour (place on the coast at which ships can shelter or dock)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Porto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 170K | Porto | 7 |
| PT Portugal | — | — | Porto | 3 |
| US United States | — | 3.5K | Porto | 298 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 85 | Porto | 53 |
| FI Finland | — | — | Porto | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 4.3K | Porto | 45 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 3.4K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 2.2K | — | 3 |
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 — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Porto is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do latim portus ‘porto’; morador ou trabalhador de um porto
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Porto, Lazio (Italia)
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Dutch, the postage due for having a letter or package transported and delivered by a postal service
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of portar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, postage; payment for sending a letter or package
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)
- António da Silva Portob. 1817PTPortuguese explorer
- António Carvalho de Silva Portob. 1850PTPortuguese painter (1850-1893)
- Paulo Portob. 1917BRBrazilian actor and director (1917-1999)
- Gerardo Portob. 1925ESSpanish sculptor and painter (1925-2010)
- Al Portob. 1926USAmerican baseball player (1926–2005)
- Xaime Quesadab. 1937ESnot in their usual nameGalician painter (1937-2007)
- Carlos Portob. 1942BRBrazilian architect
- Lidia Portob. 1963COColombian actress
- Alexandre Vidal Portob. 1965BRBrazilian writer and diplomat
- Fernanda Portob. 1965BRBrazilian singer
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 170K | #202 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.3K | #1,214 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.3K | #1,214 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,234 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3.4K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #10,016 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,634 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.2K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 85 | #36,641 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Porto mean, and where does it come from?
- port; harbour (place on the coast at which ships can shelter or dock) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Porto have the most bearers?
- Porto is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled porto.
What do you want to know about Porto?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/portoThe 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, “Porto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.