Sertao
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Sertao is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 123K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 279Kas Serton
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sertao itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 123K (inferred from the name graph)
1,723 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Serton in US United States.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sertao 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 | 1,723 | 1 in 123K | 1.7K | Sertao | 46 |
| NL Netherlands | 62as Serton | 1 in 279K | 62 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Serton | 8 |
| FR France | — | — | 10 | — | 1 |
1,723 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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Sertao 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 French, Sertão (a geographical region in northeastern Brazil)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #5,597 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Sertao have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Sertao, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sertao.
- Where is Sertao most common?
- Sertao is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 123 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sertao?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,723 people named Sertao, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sertao?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sertaoThe 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, “Sertao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.