Quaresma

surname · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Quaresma is a surname, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In São Tomé & Príncipe it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Lent (period of penitence for Christians before Easter).

rarermore common
  • STSão Tomé & Príncipe1 in 16◐
  • PTPortugal1 in 2.8K
  • BRBrazil1 in 5.5K

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

≈39K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
127 ●

11K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.5K ◐

Brazil

Meaning & origin●

Lent (period of penitence for Christians before Easter)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Quaresma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#36938,387△8.2K rec.1 in 5.5K38KQuaresma127
PT Portugal#2263,0771K rec.——Quaresma93
ST São Tomé & Príncipe#33,0502 rec.—3KQuaresma16
US United States—246755 rec.1 in 1.4M261Quaresma85
GB United Kingdom—177101 rec.—listedQuaresma36
PH Philippines—8369 rec.——Quaresma4
AO Angola#4258284 rec.——Quaresma14
CH Switzerland—76△29 rec.1 in 111K76Quaresma14
MX Mexico—6667 rec.——Quaresma8
AR Argentina—50227 rec.1 in 910K50Quaresma18
ES Spain—45198 rec.1 in 1.1M45Quaresma24
CA Canada—3633 rec.——Quaresma13

Roughly 38K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 5.5K). 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●

  • Portuguese50K89%
  • English2K4%
  • French1.5K3%
  • Spanish9182%
  • German5501%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese49,68589%
English2,0494%
French1,4653%
Spanish9182%
German5501%

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◐

Quaresma is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname3.5K records spelled Quaresma4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Quàresma

  • French surname1.7K records spelled Quaresma10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Portugal

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Quarēsma, Qûárésmá, Quaresmã, Quaresmà, Qūaresmä

  • Russian surname154 records spelled Quaresma4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Angola, Morocco

    Also written Куарежма

39 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●

Quaresma 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.

  • feriado católico; Brasil/Cerpa/Portugal/Lima

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In io, fourth

    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●

010203019501960197019801990

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Quaresma in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1941–1991
Yearrecords
19412
19514
196112
197121
198121
199122

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 6 years between 1941–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Virgínia Quaresma, b. 1882Alfredo Quaresma, b. 1944Júlio Quaresma, b. 1958RhondaLee Quaresma, b. 1968Ricardo Quaresma, b. 1983Lecabela Quaresma, b. 1989

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 19 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Quaresma
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—38K#511
ST São Tomé & PríncipeThis page provides an overview of the most common surnames in São Tomé and Príncipe, compiled from official sources incl20263K#5
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020261#78,873
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010246#77,788
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000205#84,968
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202476#13,619
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—50—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—45#47,909
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—45#47,706
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199122—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198121—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197121—

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 · 29 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Quaresma?
We estimate roughly 39 thousand people bear Quaresma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Quaresma have the most bearers?
We estimate about 38 thousand people bear Quaresma in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled quaresma.
How common is Quaresma compared with other names?
In Brazil, Quaresma is the 369th most common surname of 444,951 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Quaresma mean?
Recorded meaning: Lent (period of penitence for Christians before Easter)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Quaresma” — the 369th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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