Foco
org · Latin script
Meaning: spotlight
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Foco is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- BRBrazil
- MXMexico
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
spotlight
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Foco counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 30 | Foco | 21 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | Foco | 8 |
| AR Argentina | — | 292 | — | 32 |
| US United States | — | 282 | — | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 8 | — | 2 |
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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Foco is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do lat. focus; indica construtor de lareiras ou alimentador de fornos
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Portuguese, focus, epicenter
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Portuguese, focus (point at which rays of light converge)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of focus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In azg, obsolete spelling of joco
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 292 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 282 | #73,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 272 | #67,725 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 262 | #73,911 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 30 | #148,949 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Foco mean, and where does it come from?
- spotlight Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Foco have the most bearers?
- Foco is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled foco.
What do you want to know about Foco?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/focoThe 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, “Foco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.