Veloso

surname · Latin script

Meaning: hairy

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

/velozu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Veloso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 8.5K
  • BRBrazil≈1 in 9.7K

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)

≈22,000 people, est.

Sources
184 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

hairy

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Where in the world(measured from records)

Veloso 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 Veloso is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#251≈22,000 est.≈1 in 9.7K76Veloso184
PH Philippines—≈13,000 est.≈1 in 8.5K—Veloso62
PT Portugal#197≈4,700 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Veloso115
AR Argentina—3,8311 in 12K3.8K—1
MZ Mozambique—≈3,800 est.≈1 in 7.9K1—14
PY Paraguay—≈860 est.≈1 in 8.4K—Veloso13

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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)

Veloso is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Vëlósō, Velôso

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Portugal

    Also written Véloso, Vëlosö, Velôso, Vęloso

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Velôso, Vêloso

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Vëľõsõ

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Velôso

50 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(measured from records)

Veloso is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Filipino, a surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician], notably borne by:

    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)

19401960198020002020Caetano Veloso, b. 1942Maria Bethânia, b. 1946Lou Veloso, b. 1947António Veloso, b. 1957Rui Veloso, b. 1957Manuela M. Veloso, b. 1957Moreno Veloso, b. 1972Gustavo César Veloso, b. 1980Miguel Veloso, b. 1986Aica Veloso, b. 2005

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalPrezado(a) Veloso,Dear Veloso, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Veloso,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Veloso
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—124K#239
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—3.8K—
MZ MozambiqueWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—1#218

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Veloso mean, and where does it come from?
hairy Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Veloso?
A machine transcription gives /velozu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Veloso have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Veloso in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled veloso.
How common is the name Veloso?
In Argentina, the national register counted 3,831 people named Veloso, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Veloso compared with other names?
In Brazil, Veloso is the 251st most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

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, “Veloso” — the 251st most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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