Montalbano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: oriundo de cidades/povoações chamadas Montalbano; nome de Monte + Albano
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/moʊntɑɫˈbɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Montalbano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 103K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 18K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 35K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
oriundo de cidades/povoações chamadas Montalbano; nome de Monte + Albano.
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Montalbano 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Montalbano | 50 |
| US United States | 3,245 | 1 in 103K | 3.3K | Montalbano | 278 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Montalbano | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 308K | — | Montalbano | 3 |
| FR France | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 126K | 87 | — | 5 |
| AO Angola | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Montalbano | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 141 | 1 in 83K | 141 | Montalbano | 9 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Montalbano | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the xinhua-italian-manual register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Montalbano is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from Montalbano di Elicona in northeastern Sicily (earlier simply Montalbano), Montalbano Jonico (Matera province), or the district of Montalbano in Fasano, Brindisi.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Bartolomeo Montalbanob. 1600ITItalian composer
- Giuseppe Montalbanob. 1895ITItalian politician (1895-1989)
- Giuseppe Montalbanob. 1925ITItalian politician (1925-2021)
- Renato Montalbanob. 1931ITItalian actor (1931–2019)
- Joseph A. Montalbanob. 1954USAmerican politician
- Accursio Montalbanob. 1955ITItalian politician
- Vincenzo Montalbanob. 1969ITItalian association football player
- Riccardo Montalbanob. 1985ITarchaeologist (1985-)
- Danielle Montalbanob. 1989USPair skater
- William MontalbanoUSAmerican journalist and writer
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,200 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #9,949 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,166 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 141 | #11,592 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 100 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 3 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- How do you pronounce Montalbano?
- A machine transcription gives /moʊntɑɫˈbɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Montalbano mean?
- Recorded meaning: oriundo de cidades/povoações chamadas Montalbano; nome de Monte + Albano.
- In which country does Montalbano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Montalbano in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled montalbano.
- How common is the name Montalbano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,245 people named Montalbano in 2010, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
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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, “Montalbano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.