Souto

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Souto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a grove or plantation of chestnut trees.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 5.1K
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 5.6K

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 (measured from records)

74,527 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
169 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SoutoLatin(measured from records)
СоутоCyrillic(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)

a grove or plantation of chestnut trees

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Souto 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.

Where Souto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#20074,5271 in 2.8K75KSouto169
ES Spain—9,8741 in 5.1K9.9KSouto103
AR Argentina—3,1141 in 15K3.1K—2
UY Uruguay—2,8891 in 1.2K2.9K——
PT Portugal#283≈1,900 est.≈1 in 5.6K—Souto88

74,527 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Souto is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Soúto

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Souto 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 Finnish, synonym of soutu (“rowing”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, a grove or orchard of chestnut trees

    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)

19201940196019802000Hélio Souto, b. 1929Rafael Souto, b. 1930José Antonio Souto Paz, b. 1938Paulo Souto, b. 1943Eduardo Souto de Moura, b. 1952José Souto, b. 1959Ramón Souto, b. 1976Rodrigo Souto, b. 1983Ronny Souto, b. 1984Loris Benito, b. 1992

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 27 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Souto
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—75K#345
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—9.9K#565
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—9.9K#565
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—3.1K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—2.9K—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Souto mean, and where does it come from?
a grove or plantation of chestnut trees Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Souto have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 75 thousand people named Souto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled souto.
Where is Souto most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Souto is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Souto?
In Brazil, the national register counted 74,527 people named Souto, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
How common is Souto compared with other names?
In Brazil, Souto is the 200th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Souto” — the 200th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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