Distéfano
surname · Latin script
Distéfano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 22K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 29K
- BEBelgium1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
6,091 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Distefano in AR Argentina, US United States, PY Paraguay and 2 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Distéfano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 6,091 | 1 in 55K | 6.1K | Distefano | 81 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,586 | 1 in 29K | 1.6K | Distefano | 57 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 377 | 1 in 22K | 377 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 346 | 1 in 34K | 382 | Distefano | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 187 | 1 in 267K | 187 | Distefano | 24 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 69 | 1 in 49K | 69 | — | 5 |
| PY Paraguay | #908 | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Distefano | 10 |
6,091 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Juan Carlos Distéfanob. 1933ARArgentinian sculptor
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Distéfano have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Distéfano, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled distefano.
- Where is Distéfano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Distéfano is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Distéfano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,091 people named Distéfano in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Distéfano compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Distéfano is the 908th most common surname of 30,328 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Distéfano?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dist%C3%A9fanoThe 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, “Distéfano” — the 908th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.