Soúza

surname · Latin script

Soúza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Brazil it is the 3rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Midlothian;.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • INIndia1 in 1.1M
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 101as Sousa

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Soúza itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

256,043 named Sosa

#36 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
427 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Paraguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
SoúzaLatin(measured from records)
ซัลวาThai(measured from records)
СоузаCyrillic(measured from records)
ΣοουζαGreek(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sousa in AR Argentina, PT Portugal, UY Uruguay and 2 more, Souza in BR Brazil, US United States, IN India and 1 more and Silva in EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Midlothian;.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Soúza 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.

Where Soúza is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina—256,043as Sosa1 in 178256KSousa76
US United States—161,633as Silva1 in 2.1K163KSouza427
PT Portugal#6≈100,000 est.≈1 in 101listedSousa212
UY Uruguay—75,135as Sosa1 in 4575KSousa32
ES Spain#38448,968as Silva1 in 1K49KSousa135
EC Ecuador—47,379as Silva1 in 35747KSilva22
AO Angola#14≈41,000 est.≈1 in 7864Sousa66
BR Brazil#33,877as Sosa1 in 55K224KSouza310
PY Paraguay#368≈1,600 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Souza38
IN India—1,1781 in 1.1M1.2KSouza126

256,043 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national), counting the spelling sosa. 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Soúza is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Souza, 'Souza, Soüza, Soûza, Söuza

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Soúza under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Soúza mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Midlothian;. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,… and 1 other source.
In which country does Soúza have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 256 thousand people named Sosa, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Soúza?
In India, the national register counted 1,178 people named Soúza, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
How common is Soúza compared with other names?
In Brazil, Soúza is the 3rd 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, “Soúza” — the 3rd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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