Oporto
surname · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Oporto is a surname, most frequently recorded in Portugal. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Synonym of Porto (“city in Portugal”).
- PTPortugal1 in 48◐
- BRBrazil1 in 1.2K
- AOAngola1 in 3.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈181K ●
- Sources
- 232 ●
- 1 in 1.2K ◐
across 9 countries
139K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Porto in PT Portugal, BR Brazil, ES Spain and 10 more and Portus in PL Poland, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 2 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●
Synonym of Porto (“city in Portugal”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | — | 253,386 | 487 rec. | — | — | Porto | 85 |
| BR Brazil | — | 169,603△ | 64K rec. | 1 in 1.2K | 170K | Porto | 190 |
| CL Chile | #668 | 9,075 | 904 rec. | — | 1 | Oporto | 61 |
| PE Peru | — | 5,773 | 6.8K rec. | — | — | Oporto | 47 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,345 | 6.3K rec. | 1 in 12K | 4.3K | Porto | 103 |
| US United States | — | 3,526 | 11K rec. | 1 in 94K | 3.5K | Oporto | 232 |
| PH Philippines | — | 3,466 | 5.5K rec. | — | — | Oporto | 27 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,303 | 23K rec. | 1 in 20K | 2.3K | Oporto | 77 |
| PY Paraguay | #429 | 2,131 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Oporto | 12 |
| SV El Salvador | #591 | 2,115 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Oporto | 12 |
| MX Mexico | — | 1,419 | 4K rec. | — | 23 | Oporto | 61 |
| AO Angola | — | 1,000 | 30 rec. | — | — | Porto | 11 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish43K82%
- English4.7K9%
- Portuguese8942%
- Catalan5211%
- Lao2231%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 43,326 | 82% |
| English | 4,685 | 9% |
| Portuguese | 894 | 2% |
| Catalan | 521 | 1% |
| Lao | 223 | 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●
Oporto 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 Spanish, Porto, Oporto (a city in Portugal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Porto, Portugal; Ciudad de Mexico
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●
- Mario Oportob. 1952ARArgentinian politician
- Santiago Guijarro Oportob. 1957ESSpanish priest and biblical scholar
- Lucy Oportob. 1966CLChilean philosopher
- Carla Ortizb. 1978BOnot in their usual nameBolivian actress
- Carlos Oportob. 1983CLChilean screenwriter
- Camila Floresb. 1987CLnot in their usual nameChilean politician
- Renato BonifazPEnot in their usual namePeruvian actor
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.3K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 648 | #571 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 516 | #7,787 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 516 | #7,784 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 431 | #52,071 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 426 | #49,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 309 | #60,887 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 93 | #66,867 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 14 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #150,533 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | #43,309 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2018 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 28 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Oporto?
- We estimate roughly 181 thousand people bear Oporto (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Oporto have the most bearers?
- Oporto is most frequently recorded in Portugal, where it is most often spelled porto.
- How common is Oporto compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Oporto is the 429th most common surname of 29,395 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Oporto mean?
- Recorded meaning: Synonym of Porto (“city in Portugal”).
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Oporto” — the 429th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.