Bispo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bispo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: works with the bishop; Brasil, Lisboa, Portugal.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 897K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 9.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
works with the bishop; Brasil, Lisboa, Portugal
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bispo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #153 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 343 | Bispo | 162 |
| PT Portugal | #528 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Bispo | 66 |
| US United States | — | 371 | 1 in 897K | 371 | Bispo | 103 |
| FR France | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 256K | 31 | Bispo | 2 |
| PY Paraguay | #956 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Bispo | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 71 | 1 in 118K | 71 | Bispo | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 24 | 1 in 141K | 24 | Bispo | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bispo 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, bishop
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Portuguese, bishop (an overseer of congregations)
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(measured from records)
- Luciano Bispob. 1954BRBrazilian politician
- Anaci Paimb. 1955BRnot in their usual namegeographer and university professor, former Secretary of Education for the State of Bahia
- Antônio Bispo dos Santosb. 1959BRBrazilian activist, academic, writer, and quilombo leader (1959–2023)
- Daniel Bispob. 1974BRBrazilian boxer
- Kiki Bispob. 1974BRBrazilian lawyer and politician, councilor of the city of Salvador
- Rogério Bispob. 1985BRBrazilian long jumper
- Ademilsonb. 1994BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Fernando Holidayb. 1996BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian politician and Member of the São Paulo City Council (2017–2025)
- Mariana Bispob. 1996BRBrazilian journalist
- Amanda Bispob. 1996BRBrazilian politician
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(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 343 | #7,983 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 326 | #18,719 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 204 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 201 | #25,039 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 184 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 142 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 83 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 59 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 43 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 42 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 40 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1930 | 23 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bispo mean, and where does it come from?
- works with the bishop; Brasil, Lisboa, Portugal Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Bispo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 109 thousand people named Bispo in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bispo.
- How common is the name Bispo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 371 people named Bispo in 2010, about 1 in 897 thousand residents.
- How common is Bispo compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Bispo is the 153rd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Bispo” — the 153rd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.