The Lopes surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 18,310 people carried this name — #1,976 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 16,100 people counted. That is up 14% from 16,029 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Lopes surname
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Lopez. By surface analysis, Lopo + -es (“son of”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Lopes» (Portuguese), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
6,329 people named Lopes live in Switzerland.
They live in 25 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 2,328 people named Lopes live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 1,986 people named Lopes.
Most of them — 1,135 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 86 départements, most often Paris.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 100 people named Lopes live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
108 people named Lopes is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Lopes in American newspapers,
1885–1958.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 319,824 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Lopes,
with a public archive behind them.
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Pedro Lopes de Sousa 1540–1594 · governor -
Patrão Joaquim Lopes 1800–1890 · skipper -
Francisco Xavier Craveiro Lopes 1814–1883 · military leader -
João Simões Lopes 1817–1893 · politician -
Sir Massey Lopes, 3rd Baronet 1818–1908 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 203 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lopes.
- Loof 132 · U.S. census
- Loor 766 · U.S. census
- Loos 4,064 · U.S. census
- Loose 2,408 · U.S. census
- Lootens 408 · U.S. census
- Loots 201 · U.S. census
- Lopez 874,523 · U.S. census
- Lopinto 548 · U.S. census
- Lopresti 3,187 · U.S. census
- Lor 11,479 · U.S. census
- Lora 7,030 · U.S. census
- Loraine 187 · U.S. census
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