Adorno
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: decoration, adornment, ornament
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/adorno/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adorno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 14K
- BRBrazil1 in 24K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
8,786 people
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘gifted’ (L adomatus, past part, of adomare to decorate, adorn), bestowed by fond parents as a good omen. Dim.: Adornetti.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Adorno is read(measured from records)
Adorno is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish49%
decoration, adornment, ornament
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English29%
A clay ornament attached to a piece of pottery, usually at the rim.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese14%
adornment; decoration
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adorno 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #959 | 8,786 | 1 in 24K | 8.8K | Adorno | 105 |
| PY Paraguay | #178 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Adorno | 35 |
| US United States | — | 3,783 | 1 in 88K | 3.8K | Adorno | 203 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,306 | 1 in 14K | 3.3K | Adorno | 48 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #104 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Adorno | 36 |
| NO Norway | #830 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Adorno | 4 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Adorno | 1 |
8,786 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Adorno is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, ‘gifted’ (L adomatus, past part, of adomare to decorate, adorn), bestowed by fond parents as a good omen. Dim.: Adornetti.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Italian, forma italiana de Adornus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In hil, adornment, decoration, embellishment, ornamentation
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gabriele Adornob. 1320ITDoge of Genoa
- Antoniotto Adornob. 1340ITGenoese doge (1340-1398)
- Prospero Adornob. 1428ITpolitician
- Catherine of Genoab. 1447ITnot in their usual nameItalian author and nurse
- Antoniotto II Adornob. 1479ITDoge of Genoa
- Antoniotto Botta Adornob. 1688IThigh officer (1688–1774)
- Gretel Adornob. 1902DEGerman chemist (1902-1993)
- Theodor Adornob. 1903DEGerman philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
- Bebu Silvettib. 1944MXnot in their usual nameMexican composer (1944–2003)
- Aldo Adornob. 1982PYParaguayan footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 8.8K | #1,452 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,268 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,686 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,410 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Adorno come from?
- ‘gifted’ (L adomatus, past part, of adomare to decorate, adorn), bestowed by fond parents as a good omen. Dim.: Adornetti. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Adorno?
- A machine transcription gives /adorno/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Adorno mean?
- In Spanish, decoration, adornment, ornament
- In which country does Adorno have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 8.8 thousand people named Adorno, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adorno.
- How common is the name Adorno?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 8,786 people named Adorno, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Adorno compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Adorno is the 959th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adornoThe 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, “Adorno” — the 959th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.