Porto
loc · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Porto is a name, most frequently recorded in Portugal. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Italian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: port; harbour (place on the coast at which ships can shelter or dock).
- 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●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Oporto in AR Argentina, CL Chile, PE Peru and 8 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●
port; harbour (place on the coast at which ships can shelter or dock)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 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●
- Portuguese341K26%
- Italian10K1%
- French6K1%
- Spanish4.9K1%
- English3.5K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 341,175 | 26% |
| Italian | 10,238 | 1% |
| French | 6,049 | 1% |
| Spanish | 4,854 | 1% |
| English | 3,450 | 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●
Porto 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 Italian, do latim portus ‘porto’; morador ou trabalhador de um porto
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Porto, Lazio (Italia)
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Dutch, the postage due for having a letter or package transported and delivered by a postal service
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of portar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, postage; payment for sending a letter or package
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 5 |
| 1901 | 11 |
| 1911 | 21 |
| 1921 | 14 |
| 1931 | 11 |
| 1941 | 24 |
| 1951 | 30 |
| 1961 | 52 |
| 1971 | 64 |
| 1981 | 54 |
| 1991 | 55 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- António da Silva Portob. 1817PTPortuguese explorer
- António Carvalho de Silva Portob. 1850PTPortuguese painter (1850-1893)
- Paulo Portob. 1917BRBrazilian actor and director (1917-1999)
- Gerardo Portob. 1925ESSpanish sculptor and painter (1925-2010)
- Al Portob. 1926USAmerican baseball player (1926–2005)
- Xaime Quesadab. 1937ESnot in their usual nameGalician painter (1937-2007)
- Carlos Portob. 1942BRBrazilian architect
- Lidia Portob. 1963COColombian actress
- Alexandre Vidal Portob. 1965BRBrazilian writer and diplomat
- Fernanda Portob. 1965BRBrazilian singer
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 170K | #202 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.3K | #1,214 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.3K | #1,214 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,234 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #10,016 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,634 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.2K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 108 | #10,382 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 52 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 56 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Porto?
- We estimate roughly 181 thousand people bear Porto (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Porto have the most bearers?
- Porto is most frequently recorded in Portugal, where it is most often spelled porto.
- How common is Porto compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Porto is the 429th most common surname of 29,395 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Porto mean?
- Recorded meaning: port; harbour (place on the coast at which ships can shelter or dock)
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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, “Porto” — the 429th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.