Potente
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: powerful (having or capable of exerting power, potency or influence)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pətɛnteɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Potente is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 192K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 227K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
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
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 192K (inferred from the name graph)
288 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
powerful (having or capable of exerting power, potency or influence)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Potente is read(measured from records)
Potente is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English45%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Potente in English.
- Spanish33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Potente in Spanish.
- Portuguese6.1%
powerful (having or capable of exerting power, potency or influence)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian5.7%
present participle of potere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do lat. potens, potente, poderoso
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Potente 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 | 288 | 1 in 735K | 288 | Potente | 40 |
| ES Spain | 260 | 1 in 192K | 260 | Potente | 13 |
| AR Argentina | 200 | 1 in 227K | 200 | — | — |
| US United States | 177 | 1 in 1.9M | 202 | Potente | 24 |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 7 | 1 in 1.7M | 7 | — | 1 |
288 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Potente is also recorded in 3 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 masculine/feminine/neuter singular of potēns
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite natural masculine singular of potent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Interlingua, present participle of poter
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)
- Georg Potenteb. 1876DEPrussian court gardener and garden director at Sanssouci (1876-1945)
- Helmut Potenteb. 1939DEGerman university teacher
- Osvaldo Potenteb. 1951ARArgentine footballer and manager
- Antonietta Potenteb. 1958ITItalian theologian
- Franka Potenteb. 1974DEGerman actress
- Michael PotenteDEresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 288 | #27,348 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 260 | #13,505 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 260 | #13,489 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 202 | #96,572 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 200 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 177 | #101,737 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 153 | #107,565 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #87,348 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Potente mean, and where does it come from?
- powerful (having or capable of exerting power, potency or influence) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Potente?
- A machine transcription gives /pətɛnteɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Potente?
- In the etymology graph, Poderoso is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Potente have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 288 people named Potente, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled potente.
- Where is Potente most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Potente is densest in Spain — about 1 in 192 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Potente?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 288 people named Potente, about 1 in 735 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/potenteThe 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, “Potente”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.