Sarmento
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a woody shoot of a vine etc., used as firewood
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/saɾmẽtu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sarmento is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- PTPortugal
- BRBrazil
- PHPhilippines
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a woody shoot of a vine etc., used as firewood
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Sarmento 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 Latin, dative/ablative singular of sarmentum
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)
- Jacob de Castro Sarmentob. 1692PTPortuguese physician
- Germano César de Morais Pereira Sarmentob. 1836PTPortuguese architect
- José Estêvão de Morais Sarmentob. 1843PTPortuguese politician
- Maria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveirab. 1881PTPortuguese writer, editor
- Juliao Saramentob. 1948PTnot in their usual namePortuguese painter (1948-2021)
- Catarina Sarmento e Castrob. 1970PTPortuguese judge
- Joaquim Miranda Sarmentob. 1978PTPortuguese politician and economist
- Bruno Sarmentob. 1978PTresearcher
- Natalia Jiménezb. 1981ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Matthew Sarmentob. 1991CACanadian field hockey player (1991-)
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 46K | #466 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 749 | #32,834 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 723 | #31,906 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 648 | #33,248 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 67 | #36,297 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 67 | #36,240 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 39 | #22,536 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 25 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 17 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 17 | #608 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 17 | — |
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 Sarmento mean, and where does it come from?
- a woody shoot of a vine etc., used as firewood Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sarmento?
- A machine transcription gives /saɾmẽtu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Sarmento have the most bearers?
- Sarmento is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
What do you want to know about Sarmento?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sarmentoThe 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, “Sarmento”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.