Rodrigues
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rodrigues is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common surname. Recorded meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 78(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 212
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.9K
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- #230 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 397 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 78 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rodriguês in AO Angola.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rodrigues 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 | #15 | ≈1,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 212 | 4K | Rodrigues | 289 |
| PT Portugal | #7 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 78 | — | Rodrigues | 253 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 658 | 2 | Rodriguês | 63 |
| FR France | — | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 4.2K | Rodrigues | 11 |
| US United States | — | 31,280 | 1 in 11K | 31K | Rodrigues | 397 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 821 | 16K | — | 14 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1,773 | 1 in 423 | 1.8K | — | — |
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 — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Rodrigues 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 Italian, variante regional de Rodriguez
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Galician, second-person singular present subjunctive of rodrigar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, a surname, variant of Rodríguez
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)
- João Rodriguesb. 1558PTPortuguese missionary
- Amália Rodriguesb. 1920PTPortuguese recording artist, fado singer, actress (1920–1999)
- João Pedro Rodriguesb. 1966PTfilm director (born 1966)
- Ronaldo Aparecido Rodriguesb. 1982BRBrazilian footballer (1982–)
- Alexandre Patob. 1989BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian football player (born 1989)
- Garry Mendes Rodriguesb. 1990NLDutch-born Cape Verdean footballer
- Pabllo Vittarb. 1993BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian drag queen and singer
- Gerson Rodriguesb. 1995PTLuxembourgian association football player
- Rebeca Andradeb. 1999BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian artistic gymnast
- Igor Thiagob. 2001BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer (born 2001)
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 54 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 31K | #1,122 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 29K | #1,203 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 27K | #1,204 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 4.2K | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1.8K | #38 |
| AO Angola | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #106 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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 Rodrigues mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rodrigues have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 998 thousand people named Rodrigues in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rodrigues.
- How common is the name Rodrigues?
- In the United States, the national register counted 31,280 people named Rodrigues in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Rodrigues compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Rodrigues is the 15th 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/rodriguesThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Rodrigues” — the 15th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.