Áfricano
surname · Latin script
Áfricano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: do lat. africanus, ‘oriundo da África’.
- COColombia≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 63K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 65K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Africano in CO Colombia, PH Philippines, VE Venezuela and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
do lat. africanus, ‘oriundo da África’
Sources 2
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Áfricano counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 3 | Africano | 57 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Africano | 18 |
| AO Angola | #477 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 2 | Africano | 21 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Africano | 21 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 207K | listed | Africano | 30 |
| US United States | — | 291 | 1 in 1.1M | 291 | Africano | 77 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Africano | 20 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Áfricano mean, and where does it come from?
- do lat. africanus, ‘oriundo da África’ Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Áfricano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Áfricano in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled africano.
- How common is the name Áfricano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 291 people named Áfricano in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Áfricano compared with other names?
- In Angola, Áfricano is the 477th most common surname of 23,432 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A1fricanoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Áfricano” — the 477th most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.