# Lopes (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/lopes/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 18,310 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,976 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 16,862 people |
| Change since 2000 | +14% (16,029 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lopes in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 56% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 14% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 23% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.0% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 4.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Lopes in Brazil, the United States, the United Kingdom and South Korea.

## People named Lopes

- Wagner Lopes, Brazilian-Japanese association football player and manager
- Leila Lopes, Angolan beauty pageant titleholder
- Alexandre Lopes, Brazilian association football player
- Lisa Lopes, American singer and rapper (1971–2002)
- Lopes Tigrão, Brazilian association football player
- Adriane Lopes, Brazilian politician, mayor of the city of Campo Grande
- Bruno Lopes, Brazilian association football player
- Ricardo Lopes, Brazilian association football player
- Éverton Lopes, Brazilian amateur boxer
- Breno Lopes, Brazilian footballer
- Wesley Lopes Beltrame, Brazilian footballer
- Laura Lopes, British art curator (born 1978); daughter of Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom

and 14 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

López, Levesque, Lovejoy, Livesay, Lepage, Lipsey, Lipps, Laubach, Luebke, Levis, Lipka, Laabs.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.