# Pontes (surname)

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

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,127 |
| US rank (2010) | 22,733 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 273,953 people |
| Change since 2000 | +14% (991 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pontes 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) | 81% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 6.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 6.4% |
| Two or more races | 4.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pontes in Brazil.

## People named Pontes

- Irmã Dulce Pontes, Brazilian Catholic Franciscan Sister (1914-1992)
- Tabata Amaral, Brazilian political scientist, astrophysicist, activist, politician and Federal Representa

## Similar surnames

Pounds, Pontius, Ponds, Pontious, Piontek, Pantoja, Poindexter, Puentes, Pentecost, Pentz, Poundstone.

## 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.