Heitor

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Hector (Trojan hero in the Iliad) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025

/ejˈtoɻ/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary

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Heitor is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 297,607 people, counted by IBGE in 2022, which ranks it 98th.

  • BRBrazil1 in 711(measured from records)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 14Kfew records
  • ESSpain1 in 254K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

297,607 people, 2022

Record sources
176 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 711 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Heitor

  • Portuguese:/ejˈtoɻ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Hector (Trojan hero in the Iliad)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Heitor 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 Heitor is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#477297,6071 in 711298KHeitor176
AO Angola#862≈3,300 est.≈1 in 11K—Heitor16
PT Portugal#750≈770 est.≈1 in 14KlistedHeitor65
US United States—3781 in 880K378Heitor106
ES Spain—1971 in 254K197Heitor18
NO Norway—≈20 est.≈1 in 279K10Heitor6

297,607 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Heitor is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Portugal

    Also written Héitor

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Héitor

  • Russian name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Эитор, Эйтар, Eitor, Эйтор, Эитар

36 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)

Heitor 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.

  • Portuguese form of HECTOR , which enjoys considerable popularity. It was borne, for example, by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959).

    as a word

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)
1850190019502000Heitor Villa-Lobos, b. 1887Heitor Pereira, b. 1960Heitor Dhalia, b. 1970

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)
InformalOlá Heitor,Hi Heitor, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Heitor?
In Portuguese /ejˈtoɻ/ (Wiktionary).
What does the name Heitor mean, and where does it come from?
Hector (Trojan hero in the Iliad) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Heitor?
In the etymology graph, Hector, Héctor and Ettore are forms of the same name in other languages.
Which countries have the most people named Heitor?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 298 thousand people named Heitor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heitor. After it come Angola, Portugal, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Heitor most common?
Heitor is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 711 people carrying it.
Is Heitor a male or female name?
Heitor is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (IBGE, 2022), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Spain (INE).
How common is the name Heitor?
In Brazil, the national register counted 297,607 people named Heitor in 2022, about 1 in 711 residents.
How common is Heitor compared with other names?
In Brazil, Heitor is the 477th most common given name of 474,894 given names 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, “Heitor” — ranked 98th in Brazil (IBGE, 2022). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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