The Portugal surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,263 people carried this name — #13,456 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 129,900 people counted. That is up 28% from 1,767 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,595 people named Portugal 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 144 people named Portugal.
10 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Morbihan.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
31 people named Portugal live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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 print
Portugal in American newspapers,
1917–1922.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 410,020 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Portugal,
with a public archive behind them.
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Urraca Afonso of Portugal 1130–1210 -
Mafalda of Portugal 1149–1173 -
Mafalda of Portugal 1149–1160
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Isabel de Portugal, Countess of Monsanto 1420– -
Miguel de Portugal d. 1644 · ambassador
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Leonor de Sotomayor y Portugal 1450–1522 · aristocrat
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Portugal.
- Portes 686 · U.S. census
- Portie 182 · U.S. census
- Portier 733 · U.S. census
- Portillo 37,890 · U.S. census
- Portmann 341 · U.S. census
- Porto 3,526 · U.S. census
- Porzio 660 · U.S. census
- Pose 275 · U.S. census
- Poser 448 · U.S. census
- Poss 3,209 · U.S. census
- Posson 203 · U.S. census
- Post 23,458 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Portugal is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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