IBGE Publishes First National Surname Ranking From 2022 Census as Silva Leads

Overview

• Silva tops the new national surname list with 34,030,104 records (16.76%), followed by Santos with 21,367,475 (10.52%), then Oliveira, Souza and Pereira.
• Maria remains the most common given name with about 12.28 million records (6.05%) and José ranks first among men with about 5.16 million (2.54%).
• The database reflects the Censo 2022 reference date of August 1, 2022 and covers roughly 203 million people in 90.7 million households across all 27 states and 5,570 municipalities.
• The platform supports searches by period of birth, location and initial letter, keeps registered spellings without diacritics, counts only the first given name for rankings and withholds names with fewer than 20 occurrences; 4,309 names fall at or below that threshold.
• Regional patterns vary: Bahia’s most frequent surname is Santos, Silva dominates in states like Amapá, and some towns in Pernambuco and Alagoas have Silva in over 60% of records, with 43.38% Santos reported in Sergipe.