Portugal Genealogical Records
Portugal Birth & Baptism Records
A small index to several-hundred-thousand records from select countries.
Portugal Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to over 60,000 marriage records, including date and place of marriage and the names of the bride and groom.
An index to more than 30,000 marriage records, including personal details, names of relations and particulars of marriage.
Portugal Death & Burial Records
A searchable database of over 1 million Jewish burials with photographs of the matzevot.
An index to around 100,000 death records. The index may contain name, age, gender, parents' names, place of burial and date of burial.
Newspapers Covering Portugal
An index to over 2.1 million people mentioned in Associated Press stories, including name, subject, location, date and a reference to the article.
An index to around 500,000 Associated Press articles.
An index to and digital images of hundreds-of-thousands of world newspaper articles.
Portugal Directories & Gazetteers
A statistic and descriptive gazetteer of nations.
Useful for locating places, this searchable gazetteer gives brief details, latitude and longitude for more than 1.5 million features, places and regions throughout the world.
A directory listing manufactures in Britain, Europe and Australasia.
Portugal Cemeteries
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Portugal Histories & Books
Over 60 million historic photographs and documents submitted to Ancestry. This rich collection contains many rare sources of interest to local historians and will be relevant to most genealogical research.
Over 7 million remembrances and historic details submitted by Ancestry members. Useful for local historians.
Portugal Occupation & Business Records
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on more than 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 12 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
A directory listing manufactures in Britain, Europe and Australasia.
A database of cricket scores and players.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Portugal
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A compilation of lineage-linked family trees submitted by Ancestry users. The database contains over 2 billion individuals and is searchable by numerous metrics.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
A collection of legacy trees submitted by Ancestry users containing nearly 400 million individuals.
Portugal Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
Portugal Maps
An interactive index to thousands of maps covering the world, continents, countries and regions. The majority of maps cover Britain and Ireland.
Historical Description
This Kingdome is about 320 miles long, and 60 broad; the Air is very healthfull; the Countrey for the most part hilly, and bare of Corn, which defect is recompenced with abundance of Honey, Wine, Oyl, Allum, Fruits, Fish, white Marble, Salt. [Note: Note, that Portugal is at present under a King of their own.
Other than Lisbon, the chief cities are, Mirandam Braga, the Metropolis of Portugal & Conimbra, Porto, or Portus Galloram.
This, the most westerly of the European countries, with an area of 35,500 square miles and a population (exclusive of the Colonies) of 6,399,355 (1920), is rich in mineral and vegetable produce; of the latter, the vine and the olive are the chief, and of the former, copper, iron, antimony, and manganese. Its manufactures are increasing in importance, and now comprise iron and steel goods, as well as gloves, silk, woollen and cotton stuffs. The principal article of export, however, is the celebrated wine of Oporto, in which in normal times consists nearly one-third of the export trade to the United Kingdom Cork is also very largely exported, and considerable quantities of cocoa from the colony of S. Thome are also re-exported to this country. The Imports from the United Kingdom in 1920, principally machinery are hardware, coal and metals, woollens, and cotton goods amounted to £12,051,676, the Exports to the United Kingdom being £6,899,451. Lisbon, the capital, has (1920) 500,276 inhabitants; Oporto, 215,330.
Most Common Surnames in Portugal
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silva | 283,326 | 1:37 | |
| 2 | Santos | 222,145 | 1:47 | |
| 3 | Ferreira | 191,083 | 1:55 | |
| 4 | Pereira | 173,391 | 1:60 | |
| 5 | Costa | 154,689 | 1:67 | |
| 6 | Oliveira | 145,961 | 1:71 | |
| 7 | Martins | 138,290 | 1:75 | |
| 8 | Rodrigues | 138,045 | 1:75 | |
| 9 | Sousa | 130,534 | 1:80 | |
| 10 | Fernandes | 119,777 | 1:87 | |
| 11 | Lopes | 111,030 | 1:94 | |
| 12 | Gonçalves | 107,963 | 1:96 | |
| 13 | Marques | 107,945 | 1:97 | |
| 14 | Gomes | 105,812 | 1:98 | |
| 14 | Ribeiro | 105,812 | 1:98 | |
| 16 | Carvalho | 104,425 | 1:100 | |
| 17 | Almeida | 102,349 | 1:102 | |
| 18 | Pinto | 101,868 | 1:102 | |
| 19 | Alves | 93,800 | 1:111 | |
| 20 | Dias | 85,506 | 1:122 | |
| 21 | Teixeira | 79,807 | 1:131 | |
| 22 | Correia | 78,533 | 1:133 | |
| 23 | Mendes | 72,344 | 1:144 | |
| 24 | Soares | 66,880 | 1:156 | |
| 25 | Vieira | 65,390 | 1:159 | |
| 26 | Monteiro | 65,333 | 1:159 | |
| 27 | Moreira | 64,267 | 1:162 | |
| 28 | Cardoso | 64,021 | 1:163 | |
| 29 | Duarte | 63,125 | 1:165 | |
| 30 | Nunes | 62,304 | 1:167 | |
| 31 | Rocha | 55,680 | 1:187 | |
| 32 | Coelho | 53,859 | 1:193 | |
| 33 | Neves | 52,321 | 1:199 | |
| 33 | Reis | 52,321 | 1:199 | |
| 35 | Pires | 50,141 | 1:208 | |
| 36 | Cunha | 49,170 | 1:212 | |
| 37 | Machado | 47,056 | 1:221 | |
| 37 | Matos | 47,056 | 1:221 | |
| 39 | Fonseca | 46,037 | 1:226 | |
| 40 | Ramos | 45,235 | 1:230 | |
| 41 | Tavares | 44,537 | 1:234 | |
| 42 | Freitas | 43,989 | 1:237 | |
| 43 | Simões | 43,102 | 1:242 | |
| 44 | Cruz | 42,970 | 1:242 | |
| 45 | Antunes | 41,045 | 1:254 | |
| 46 | Figueiredo | 40,111 | 1:260 | |
| 47 | Barbosa | 38,630 | 1:270 | |
| 48 | Castro | 37,526 | 1:278 | |
| 49 | Araújo | 37,196 | 1:280 | |
| 49 | Azevedo | 37,196 | 1:280 | |
| 51 | Lima | 36,818 | 1:283 | |
| 52 | Lourenço | 34,195 | 1:305 | |
| 53 | Faria | 32,327 | 1:322 | |
| 54 | Morais | 31,987 | 1:326 | |
| 55 | Andrade | 31,411 | 1:332 | |
| 56 | Henriques | 31,261 | 1:333 | |
| 57 | Mota | 31,242 | 1:333 | |
| 58 | Pinheiro | 30,600 | 1:340 | |
| 59 | Afonso | 30,506 | 1:342 | |
| 60 | Barros | 29,524 | 1:353 | |
| 61 | Miranda | 28,307 | 1:368 | |
| 62 | Baptista | 28,251 | 1:369 | |
| 63 | Melo | 27,703 | 1:376 | |
| 64 | Guerreiro | 27,694 | 1:376 | |
| 65 | Nogueira | 27,401 | 1:380 | |
| 66 | Abreu | 27,279 | 1:382 | |
| 67 | Borges | 26,722 | 1:390 | |
| 68 | Brito | 26,156 | 1:398 | |
| 69 | Campos | 26,052 | 1:400 | |
| 70 | Vaz | 26,024 | 1:400 | |
| 71 | Rosa | 25,910 | 1:402 | |
| 72 | Maia | 25,807 | 1:404 | |
| 73 | Esteves | 25,354 | 1:411 | |
| 74 | Batista | 25,080 | 1:415 | |
| 75 | Moura | 24,854 | 1:419 | |
| 76 | Amaral | 24,448 | 1:426 | |
| 77 | Gaspar | 23,174 | 1:450 | |
| 78 | Leite | 23,061 | 1:452 | |
| 79 | Jorge | 22,740 | 1:458 | |
| 80 | Neto | 22,599 | 1:461 | |
| 81 | Gouveia | 22,042 | 1:473 | |
| 82 | Jesus | 21,985 | 1:474 | |
| 83 | Branco | 21,976 | 1:474 | |
| 84 | Valente | 21,900 | 1:476 | |
| 85 | Pedro | 21,787 | 1:478 | |
| 86 | Pinho | 21,466 | 1:485 | |
| 87 | Loureiro | 20,485 | 1:509 | |
| 88 | Filipe | 19,853 | 1:525 | |
| 89 | Cabral | 19,607 | 1:531 | |
| 90 | Luís | 19,570 | 1:532 | |
| 91 | Miguel | 19,041 | 1:547 | |
| 92 | Rebelo | 18,853 | 1:553 | |
| 93 | Macedo | 18,834 | 1:553 | |
| 94 | Garcia | 18,626 | 1:559 | |
| 95 | Couto | 18,286 | 1:570 | |
| 96 | Amorim | 18,126 | 1:575 | |
| 97 | Nascimento | 18,117 | 1:575 | |
| 98 | Leal | 18,098 | 1:576 | |
| 99 | Guimarães | 17,984 | 1:579 | |
| 100 | Vicente | 17,881 | 1:583 | |
| 101 | Paiva | 17,447 | 1:597 | |
| 102 | Bastos | 17,399 | 1:599 | |
| 103 | Vasconcelos | 17,305 | 1:602 | |
| 104 | Matias | 16,937 | 1:615 | |
| 105 | Bento | 16,890 | 1:617 | |
| 106 | Pacheco | 16,871 | 1:618 | |
| 107 | Carneiro | 16,777 | 1:621 | |
| 108 | Cordeiro | 16,767 | 1:621 | |
| 109 | Sequeira | 16,701 | 1:624 | |
| 110 | Domingues | 16,588 | 1:628 | |
| 110 | Guedes | 16,588 | 1:628 | |
| 110 | Mateus | 16,588 | 1:628 | |
| 113 | Saraiva | 16,116 | 1:646 | |
| 114 | Coutinho | 15,814 | 1:659 | |
| 115 | Sampaio | 15,767 | 1:661 | |
| 116 | Morgado | 15,654 | 1:666 | |
| 117 | Peixoto | 15,644 | 1:666 | |
| 118 | Manuel | 15,626 | 1:667 | |
| 119 | Lemos | 15,512 | 1:672 | |
| 120 | Madeira | 15,352 | 1:679 | |
| 121 | Aguiar | 15,220 | 1:685 | |
| 122 | Mendonça | 15,192 | 1:686 | |
| 123 | Ramalho | 14,890 | 1:700 | |
| 124 | Caetano | 14,805 | 1:704 | |
| 125 | Mesquita | 14,786 | 1:705 | |
| 126 | Serra | 14,588 | 1:714 | |
| 127 | Godinho | 14,238 | 1:732 | |
| 128 | Magalhes | 14,125 | 1:738 | |
| 129 | Francisco | 14,078 | 1:740 | |
| 130 | Paulo | 14,059 | 1:741 | |
| 131 | Conceição | 14,040 | 1:742 | |
| 132 | Torres | 14,021 | 1:743 | |
| 133 | Ventura | 13,748 | 1:758 | |
| 134 | Barata | 13,446 | 1:775 | |
| 135 | Guerra | 13,267 | 1:785 | |
| 136 | Domingos | 13,106 | 1:795 | |
| 137 | Viegas | 13,097 | 1:795 | |
| 138 | Franco | 12,965 | 1:804 | |
| 139 | Braga | 12,927 | 1:806 | |
| 140 | Pimenta | 12,908 | 1:807 | |
| 141 | Bernardo | 12,889 | 1:808 | |
| 142 | Brandão | 12,880 | 1:809 | |
| 143 | Raposo | 12,578 | 1:828 | |
| 144 | Freire | 12,370 | 1:842 | |
| 145 | Pais | 12,351 | 1:844 | |
| 145 | Trindade | 12,351 | 1:844 | |
| 147 | Martinho | 12,257 | 1:850 | |
| 148 | António | 12,163 | 1:857 | |
| 149 | Magalhaes | 12,031 | 1:866 | |
| 150 | Palma | 11,955 | 1:871 | |
| 151 | Dinis | 11,927 | 1:874 | |
| 151 | Veiga | 11,927 | 1:874 | |
| 153 | Roque | 11,889 | 1:876 | |
| 154 | Alexandre | 11,729 | 1:888 | |
| 155 | Caldeira | 11,663 | 1:893 | |
| 156 | Vale | 11,370 | 1:916 | |
| 157 | Figueira | 11,153 | 1:934 | |
| 158 | Barroso | 11,106 | 1:938 | |
| 159 | Viana | 11,096 | 1:939 | |
| 160 | Carreira | 11,030 | 1:945 | |
| 161 | Carmo | 10,983 | 1:949 | |
| 162 | Albuquerque | 10,945 | 1:952 | |
| 163 | da Silva | 10,917 | 1:954 | |
| 164 | Medeiros | 10,879 | 1:958 | |
| 165 | Botelho | 10,851 | 1:960 | |
| 166 | Pina | 10,832 | 1:962 | |
| 167 | Lobo | 10,625 | 1:981 | |
| 168 | Nobre | 10,577 | 1:985 | |
| 169 | Carlos | 10,559 | 1:987 | |
| 170 | Amaro | 10,540 | 1:988 | |
| 171 | Inácio | 10,511 | 1:991 | |
| 172 | Graça | 10,408 | 1:1,001 | |
| 173 | Xavier | 10,294 | 1:1,012 | |
| 174 | Sá | 10,247 | 1:1,017 | |
| 175 | Gil | 10,143 | 1:1,027 | |
| 176 | Lucas | 10,068 | 1:1,035 | |
| 177 | Marinho | 9,898 | 1:1,053 | |
| 178 | Cerqueira | 9,672 | 1:1,077 | |
| 179 | Ferrão | 9,662 | 1:1,078 | |
| 180 | Luíz | 9,643 | 1:1,080 | |
| 181 | Fontes | 9,558 | 1:1,090 | |
| 182 | Pimentel | 9,521 | 1:1,094 | |
| 182 | Silveira | 9,521 | 1:1,094 | |
| 184 | Teles | 9,379 | 1:1,111 | |
| 185 | Veloso | 9,285 | 1:1,122 | |
| 186 | Diogo | 9,247 | 1:1,127 | |
| 187 | Ferraz | 9,228 | 1:1,129 | |
| 188 | Queirós | 9,077 | 1:1,148 | |
| 189 | Resende | 8,964 | 1:1,162 | |
| 190 | André | 8,926 | 1:1,167 | |
| 191 | Abrantes | 8,870 | 1:1,175 | |
| 192 | Augusto | 8,804 | 1:1,183 | |
| 193 | Barreto | 8,785 | 1:1,186 | |
| 194 | Magalhães | 8,700 | 1:1,197 | |
| 195 | Farinha | 8,681 | 1:1,200 | |
| 196 | Calado | 8,511 | 1:1,224 | |
| 197 | Patrício | 8,388 | 1:1,242 | |
| 198 | Pedrosa | 8,360 | 1:1,246 | |
| 199 | Louro | 8,303 | 1:1,255 | |
| 200 | Meireles | 8,275 | 1:1,259 | |