Recco
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Reconnaissance (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɾekku/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Recco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 1,448 people, counted by IBGE.
- BRBrazil1 in 146K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 1.2M
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 146K (inferred from the name graph)
1,448 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Recco
- Portuguese:/ɾekku/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/rekko/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Reconnaissance.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Recco is found
(measured from records)Recco 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 | 1,448 | 1 in 146K | 1.4K | — | — |
| US United States | 244 | 1 in 1.4M | 244 | Recco | 17 |
| AR Argentina | 37 | 1 in 1.2M | 37 | Recco | 28 |
| ES Spain | 31 | 1 in 1.6M | 31 | Recco | 13 |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
1,448 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Giacomo Reccob. 1603ITpainter (1603-1653)
- Giuseppe Reccob. 1634ITItalian painter (1634-1695)
- Elena Reccob. 1654ITItalian active 2nd half of 17th century F:1
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Recco mean, and where does it come from?
- Reconnaissance. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Recco?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ɾekku/; in Spanish /rekko/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Recco?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Recco, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Argentina, Spain and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Recco most common?
- Recco is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 146 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Recco?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,448 people named Recco, about 1 in 146 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Recco?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reccoThe 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, “Recco” — ranked 6563rd in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.