Portu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Portu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 239K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 450K
- UYUruguay≈1 in 727K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- 1 in 239K (inferred from the name graph)
209 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Portu 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.
209 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Portu 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 Latin, ablative singular of portus (“harbor, port”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, accusative singular of port
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, genitive singular of port
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, imperative of porti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tet, port; harbor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rup, to wear
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)
- Flaviu Cristianb. 1951USnot in their usual nameRomanian computer scientist (1951-1999)
- Horia Cristianb. 1963ROnot in their usual nameRomanian politician
- Brian Cristianb. 1990ROnot in their usual nameRomanian politician
- Citlali Cristianb. 1995MXnot in their usual nameMexican athletics competitor
- Jaqueline Cristianb. 1998ROnot in their usual nameRomanian tennis player
- Stefania CristianROnot in their usual name(born 1991) in Constanta, Romania. She enrolled in a modeling agency at age 17.
- Corneliu CristianROnot in their usual nameRomanian politician from Movilița, Vrancea County
- Vasilică CristianROnot in their usual nameRomanian politician from Andreiașu de Jos, Vrancea County
- Gheorghe CristianROnot in their usual nameRomanian politician from Victoria, Brașov County
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 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 209 | #15,999 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 209 | #15,962 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 23 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Portu have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 209 people named Portu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled portu.
- Where is Portu most common?
- Portu is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 239 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Portu?
- In Spain, the national register counted 209 people named Portu, about 1 in 239 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Portu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/portuThe 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, “Portu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.