Sequeira
surname · Latin script
Meaning: who lived by a patch of dry, infertile land or a piece of land used for drying crops or bleaching clothes in the sun
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɛkɛira/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sequeira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 250(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 284
- UYUruguay1 in 546
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.
- Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 250 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, 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)
who lived by a patch of dry, infertile land or a piece of land used for drying crops or bleaching clothes in the sun. The term derives from LL siccdria, a deriv. of siccus dry (see Seco), and has named various places, which may also be sources of the surname.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sequeira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NI Nicaragua | #25 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 250 | — | Sequeira | 61 |
| AR Argentina | #281 | 22,965 | 1 in 2K | 23K | Sequeira | 86 |
| CR Costa Rica | #78 | 17,948 | 1 in 284 | 18K | Sequeira | 92 |
| PT Portugal | #94 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Sequeira | 129 |
| UY Uruguay | #108 | 6,201 | 1 in 546 | 6.2K | Sequeira | 39 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Sequeira is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, lived by a patch of dry, infertile land or a piece of land used for drying crops or bleaching clothes in the sun. The term derives from LLsiccdria, a deriv. of siccus dry (see Seco), and has named various places, which may also be sources of the surname.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
lugar seco; dry place
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Domingos de Sequeirab. 1768PTPortuguese painter (1768-1837)
- John Baptist Sequeirab. 1930INIndian priest
- Benvindo Sequeirab. 1947BRBrazilian film director
- Douglas Sequeirab. 1977CRCosta Rican footballer (born 1977)
- Aarti Sequeirab. 1978INIndian chef
- Nuno Sequeirab. 1990PTPortuguese footballer
- Naomi Sequeirab. 1994AUAustralian actress and singer
- João Félixb. 1999PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer (born 1999)
- Patrick Sequeirab. 1999CRCosta Rican footballer
- Luis Sequeirab. 2000CACanadian costume designer
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 34 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 23K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 18K | #112 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 6.2K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Sequeira come from?
- who lived by a patch of dry, infertile land or a piece of land used for drying crops or bleaching clothes in the sun. The term derives from LL siccdria, a deriv. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Sequeira?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛkɛira/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Sequeira mean?
- Recorded meaning: who lived by a patch of dry, infertile land or a piece of land used for drying crops or bleaching clothes in the sun.
- In which country does Sequeira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Sequeira in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sequeira.
- How common is the name Sequeira?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 22,965 people named Sequeira, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Sequeira compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Sequeira is the 25th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sequeiraThe 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, “Sequeira” — the 25th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.