Branco
loc · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Branco is a name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: white.
- PTPortugal1 in 923◐
- BRBrazil1 in 1M
- HRCroatia1 in 190
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈38K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 202 ●
- 1 in 190 ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
56K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Бранко in RU Russia, RS Serbia, TR Türkiye and 3 more and Branko in SI Slovenia, US United States, KG Kyrgyzstan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
white
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | — | 22,234 | — | 1 in 190 | 22K | — | — |
| PT Portugal | — | 13,275 | 4.1K rec. | — | listed | Branco | 138 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 9,558△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 220 | 9.6K | Branko | 6 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 3,697 | 0 rec. | 1 in 575 | 3.7K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 856 | 5.9K rec. | 1 in 389K | 2.8K | Branko | 202 |
| RU Russia | — | 523 | 294 rec. | — | — | Бранко | 55 |
| SE Sweden | — | 404△ | 12 rec. | 1 in 25K | 404 | — | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 328△ | 76 rec. | 1 in 53K | 328 | — | 31 |
| RS Serbia | #765 | 246 | 13 rec. | — | listed | Бранко | 10 |
| BR Brazil | — | 210 | 43K rec. | 1 in 1M | 331 | Branco | 172 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 102 | — | 1 in 105K | 102 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | — | 99 | 12 rec. | — | — | Бранко | 3 |
Roughly 22K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 190). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese50K20%
- Spanish1.2K1%
- French6381%
- Italian4261%
- English2111%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 49,773 | 20% |
| Spanish | 1,238 | 1% |
| French | 638 | 1% |
| Italian | 426 | 1% |
| English | 211 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Branco is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, white (color)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
cor branca; color white
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Gloria
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Italian, flock (of sheep)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, stretcher-bearer
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1932 | 1 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1964 | 2 |
| 1965 | 1 |
| 1966 | 2 |
| 1967 | 1 |
| 1968 | 1 |
| 1969 | 2 |
| 1971 | 1 |
| 1973 | 1 |
| 1974 | 4 |
| 1977 | 1 |
| 1979 | 1 |
| 1981 | 2 |
| 1983 | 1 |
| 1984 | 2 |
| 1985 | 1 |
| 1986 | 4 |
| 1987 | 3 |
| 1988 | 3 |
| 1989 | 12 |
| 1990 | 22 |
| 1991 | 23 |
| 1992 | 22 |
| 1993 | 24 |
| 1994 | 37 |
| 1995 | 39 |
| 1996 | 35 |
| 1997 | 30 |
| 1998 | 36 |
| 1999 | 22 |
| 2000 | 156 |
| 2001 | 87 |
| 2002 | 58 |
| 2003 | 49 |
| 2004 | 40 |
| 2005 | 37 |
| 2006 | 24 |
| 2007 | 29 |
| 2008 | 22 |
| 2009 | 22 |
| 2010 | 41 |
| 2011 | 19 |
| 2012 | 20 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 12 |
| 2015 | 14 |
| 2016 | 16 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 5 |
CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 54 years between 1930–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Luís de Freitas Brancob. 1890PTPortuguese composer, musicologist, and professor of music (1890-1955)
- Paulo Brancob. 1950PTfilm producer, executive producer (born 1950)
- Joaquim Rafael Brancob. 1953STSão Tomé and Príncipe politician
- Branco Mellob. 1962BRBrazilian musician
- Silvio Brancob. 1966ITItalian boxer
- Cristina Brancob. 1972PTPortuguese singer
- Serge Brancob. 1980CMCameroonian footballer
- Luís Godinhob. 1985PTnot in their usual nameassociation football referee
- Juan Brancob. 1989ESFrench-Spanish lawyer, writer and political activist (born 1989)
- Branco van den Boomenb. 1995NLDutch footballer
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●
Attested in 47 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 74K | #347 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,293 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,183 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,060 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 467 | #2,793 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 353 | #10,580 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 353 | #10,564 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 339 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 331 | #8,191 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 328 | #2,131 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 290 | #20,160 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 281 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 231 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Branco?
- We estimate roughly 38 thousand people bear Branco (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Branco have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 22 thousand people bear Branco in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Branco most common?
- Branco is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 190 people carrying it.
- How common is Branco compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Branco is the 765th most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Branco mean?
- Recorded meaning: white
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Branco” — the 765th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.