Lisboa

loc · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Lisboa is a name, most frequently recorded in Portugal. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Lisboa), the principal city of Portugal.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal1 in 16◐
  • CVCape Verde1 in 362
  • AOAngola1 in 492

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.5K ●

across 13 countries

Sources
180 ●

105K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 119K ◐

Argentina

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lisbon in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 1 more.

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●

Lisboa), the principal city of Portugal. The name is first recorded in the L form Olisipo and is of uncertain, possibly Carthaginian, origin. Cogns.: Jewish: Lisbon(a).

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Lisboa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PT Portugal763,245889 rec.—listedLisboa82
AO Angola7,001309 rec.——Lisboa28
CV Cape Verde1,8243 rec.——Lisboa7
IT Italy1,36443 rec.——Lisboa21
MZ Mozambique73720 rec.——Lisboa15
US United States7063K rec.1 in 471K869Lisbon180
ST São Tomé & Príncipe5320 rec.——Lisboa4
GW Guinea-Bissau4364 rec.——Lisboa2
AR Argentina3820 rec.1 in 119K382—1
ES Spain208242 rec.1 in 240K208Lisboa48
GB United Kingdom127170 rec.—listedLisbon43
CH Switzerland65△23 rec.1 in 129K65—17

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Languages●

  • Portuguese776K64%
  • English6.4K1%
  • Spanish1.2K1%
  • French8081%
  • Italian3731%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese775,83864%
English6,4101%
Spanish1,2231%
French8081%
Italian3731%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Lisboa is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name18K records spelled Lisboa7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Mexico, Peru, Colombia

    Also written Lisbon, Lisbôa, Lisböa, Lísbóá, Lisbón

  • English name6.9K records spelled Lisboa6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Portugal, United Kingdom, United States, Finland

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Lisbôa, Lisbõa

  • Chinese name2.5K records spelled Lisboa4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Macao, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan

    Also written Lisbon, Lisbo, Lisbôa

  • a separate name899 records spelled Lisboa3 spellings in the group

    Also written Lisbôa, Lisbõa

  • a separate name361 records spelled Lisboa4 spellings in the group

    Also written Lísbóá, Lisbôa

  • Russian surname240 records spelled Lisboa8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Finland, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Лижбоа, Лисбоа, Lisbôa

51 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●

Lisboa 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, Lisbon (the capital city of Portugal)

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

  • In English, Dated form of Lisbon.

    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●

1400160018002000João de Lisboa, b. 1470Irene Lisboa, b. 1892António Maria Lisboa, b. 1928Elisa Lisboa, b. 1944Carlos Lisboa, b. 1958Adriana Lisboa, b. 1970Sofia Lisboa, b. 1977Mel Lisboa, b. 1982Matheus Lisboa, b. 1990Yago Pikachu, 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●

Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Lisboa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—168K#205
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020869#29,059
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010706#32,562
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000521#39,678
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—382—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—208#16,065
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—208#16,020
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—155#29,187
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—148#14,412
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202294—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—78#43,073
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)195073—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 63 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lisboa?
We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Lisboa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Lisboa have the most bearers?
Lisboa is most frequently recorded in Portugal, where it is most often spelled lisboa.
What does the name Lisboa mean?
Recorded meaning: Lisboa), the principal city of Portugal.
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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lisboa”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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