Raposo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: foxlike in colour
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʁɐpozu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raposo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 8.1K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 9.1K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
26,100 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
foxlike in colour
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raposo 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 | #452 | 26,100 | 1 in 8.1K | 26K | Raposo | 137 |
| PT Portugal | #123 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Raposo | 126 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,262 | 1 in 12K | 4.3K | Raposo | 98 |
| US United States | — | 2,829 | 1 in 118K | 2.8K | Raposo | 217 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Raposo | 81 |
| AO Angola | #491 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Raposo | 13 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #410 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Raposo | 28 |
26,100 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Raposo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, fox (animal)
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)
- José Hipólito Raposob. 1885PTPortuguese politician
- Joe Raposob. 1937USAmerican composer (1937–1989)
- Alvacir Raposob. 1950BRphysician and writer
- Carlos Kaiserb. 1963BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer (born 1963)
- José Raposob. 1963PTPortuguese actor (born 1963)
- Joe Raposob. 1970USAmerican bassist
- Gregory Raposob. 1985USAmerican actor and singer
- Raúl Llorenteb. 1986ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Ryan Raposob. 1999CACanadian soccer player
- Valentina Raposob. 2003ARArgentine field hockey player
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 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 26K | #670 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.3K | #1,244 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.3K | #1,244 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,179 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,116 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,729 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Raposo mean, and where does it come from?
- foxlike in colour Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Raposo?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁɐpozu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Raposo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Raposo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raposo.
- How common is the name Raposo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 26,100 people named Raposo, about 1 in 8.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Raposo compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Raposo is the 452nd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raposoThe 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, “Raposo” — the 452nd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.