Most common surnames in Portugal

[Damião de Góis]

Here are the 97 most common surnames in Portugal. Might be useful to someone:

Ordem 	Apelido 	Frequência  percentual 	Frequência (em milhares)
1 	Silva 	9,44% 	999
2 	Santos 	5,96% 	628
3 	Ferreira 	5,25% 	553
4 	Pereira 	4,88% 	514
5 	Oliveira 	3,71% 	391
6 	Costa 	3,68% 	387
7 	Rodrigues 	3,57% 	376
8 	Martins 	3,23% 	340
9 	Jesus 	2,99% 	315
10 	Sousa 	2,95% 	311
11 	Fernandes 	2,82% 	297
12 	Gonçalves 	2,76% 	291
13 	Gomes 	2,57% 	271
14 	Lopes 	2,52% 	265
15 	Marques 	2,51% 	265
16 	Alves 	2,37% 	250
17 	Almeida 	2,27% 	239
18 	Ribeiro 	2,27% 	239
19 	Pinto 	2,09% 	220
20 	Carvalho 	1,97% 	208
21 	Teixeira 	1,69% 	178
22 	Moreira 	1,54% 	162
23 	Correia 	1,53% 	161
24 	Mendes 	1,39% 	146
25 	Nunes 	1,32% 	139
26 	Soares 	1,28% 	135
27 	Vieira 	1,2% 	127
28 	Monteiro 	1,11% 	117
29 	Cardoso 	1,07% 	113
30 	Rocha 	1,04% 	110
31 	Raposo 	0,97 % 	106
32 	Neves 	0,98% 	103
33 	Coelho 	0,97% 	102
34 	Cruz 	0,94% 	99
35 	Cunha 	0,93% 	98
36 	Pires 	0,92% 	97
37 	Ramos 	0,86% 	91
38 	Reis 	0,85% 	90
39 	Simões 	0,85% 	90
40 	Antunes 	0,82% 	86
41 	Matos 	0,82% 	86
42 	Fonseca 	0,81% 	86
43 	Machado 	0,76% 	80
44 	Araújo 	0,69% 	73
45 	Barbosa 	0,69% 	72
46 	Tavares 	0,67% 	71
47 	Lourenço 	0,65% 	68
48 	Castro 	0,62% 	66
49 	Figueiredo 	0,62% 	65
50 	Azevedo 	0,60% 	64
51 	Freitas 	0,60% 	63
52 	Magalhães 	0,58% 	61
53 	Henriques 	0,56% 	59
54 	Lima 	0,54% 	57
55 	Guerreiro 	0,51% 	54
56 	Batista 	0,51% 	53
57 	Pinheiro 	0,49% 	51
58 	Faria 	0,47% 	50
59 	Miranda 	0,47% 	50
60 	Barros 	0,46% 	49
61 	Morais 	0,46% 	49
62 	Nogueira 	0,46% 	49
63 	Esteves 	0,45% 	47
64 	Anjos 	0,43% 	45
65 	Baptista 	0,43% 	45
66 	Campos 	0,43% 	45
67 	Mota 	0,43% 	45
68 	Andrade 	0,41% 	43
69 	Brito 	0,40% 	42
70 	Sá 	0,40% 	42
71 	Nascimento 	0,39% 	41
72 	Leite 	0,38% 	40
73 	Abreu 	0,36% 	38
74 	Borges 	0,36% 	38
75 	Melo 	0,34% 	36
76 	Vaz 	0,34% 	36
77 	Pinho 	0,33% 	35
78 	Vicente 	0,33% 	35
79 	Gaspar 	0,33% 	34
80 	Assunção 	0,32% 	34
81 	Maia 	0,32% 	34
82 	Moura 	0,32% 	34
83 	Valente 	0,32% 	34
84 	Domingues 	0,32% 	33
85 	Garcia 	0,32% 	33
86 	Carneiro 	0,31% 	33
87 	Loureiro 	0,30% 	32
88 	Neto 	0,30% 	32
89 	Amaral 	0,30% 	31
90 	Branco 	0,29% 	31
91 	Leal 	0,26% 	28
92 	Pacheco 	0,26% 	27
93 	Macedo 	0,25% 	26
94 	Paiva 	0,25% 	26
95 	Matias 	0,24% 	26
96 	Amorim 	0,24% 	25
97 	Torres 	0,24% 	25

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Only one of my three surnames in on that list.

[Damião de Góis]

Only one of my three surnames in on that list.

Same here.

[Ruderico]

Only one of my parent's surnames is missing. We're all peasants

[gixajo]

My paternal grand mother from Andalusia had Garcia as second surname, so it´s my 7th. surname.

But Garcia is the most common surname in Spain.

I have a Galician surname among my 16 first surnames, maybe is shared with Portugueses: Pombo.

[Damião de Góis]

My paternal grand mother from Andalusia had Garcia as second surname, so it´s my 7th. surname.

But Garcia is the most common surname in Spain.

I have a Galician surname among my 16 first surnames, maybe is shared with Portugueses: Pombo.

Yes i have met people with the surname Pombo. As for Garcia is a curious case because it's supposed to be basque in origin but it's spread all over including here.

[gixajo]

Yes i have met people with the surname Pombo. As for Garcia is a curious case because it's supposed to be basque in origin but it's spread all over including here.

Was a male common name, at least was quite common in Navarre common during the middle ages.

Maybe it has an etymological origin in some Basque dialect during the Middle Ages.

And from the person's name it would change as a patronymic indicative to be a surname, but I don't think that carrying that surname necessarily indicates a Basque ancestry.

Like Rodriguez, it would not necessarily indicate Visigothic ancestry, no matter how much it derives from a name of a person of Germanic origin (Rodrigo = Roderic).

My Pombo surname comes from a man called Blas Pombo del Corral, born in San Martín de Cances parrish, in La Coruña province in 1692.

He is the only "parachutist" of my mother's ancestors in 5 centuries that I have collected in my genealogical tree that was not from an area around 40 km from my mother's village.

He married with a woman born in a village 5 km from my mother's town in 1719, María Sáenz de Navaridas .

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Was a male common name, at least was quite common in Navarre common during the middle ages.

Maybe it has an etymological origin in some Basque dialect during the Middle Ages.

And from the person's name it would change as a patronymic indicative to be a surname, but I don't think that carrying that surname necessarily indicates a Basque ancestry.

Like Rodriguez, it would not necessarily indicate Visigothic ancestry, no matter how much it derives from a name of a person of Germanic origin (Rodrigo = Roderic).

My Pombo surname comes from a man called Blas Pombo del Corral, born in San Martín de Cances parrish, in La Coruña province in 1692.

He is the only "parachutist" of my mother's ancestors in 5 centuries that I have collected in my genealogical tree that was not from an area around 40 km from my mother's village.

He married with a woman born in a village 5 km from my mother's town in 1719, María Sáenz de Navaridas .

Pombo means Paloma in Portuguese (and probably Galician too).

[Tenma de Pegasus]

Not even one of my two last names

[gixajo]

Pombo means Paloma in Portuguese (and probably Galician too).

Yes, I knew it, that animal is included in the most common heraldic related shield to that surname.

https://www.galiciadigital.com/opinion/opinion.986.php

No one of the Pombos named in that site is related with my Pombo ancestor as far as I know.