Orrù
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Orrù is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a surname from Sardinian.
- ITItaly≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 300K
- BEBelgium1 in 378K
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
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Orru in BR Brazil, ES Spain, BE Belgium.
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)
a surname from Sardinian
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Orrù 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.
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Adolfo Orrùb. 1909ITItalian engraver, painter and sculptor (1909-1995)
- Antonino Orrùb. 1928ITItalian Roman Catholic Bishop (1928–2022)
- Beniamino Orrùb. 1943ITItalian librarian (1943-2013)
- Luisa Orrùb. 1944ITItalian anthropologist (1944-1998)
- Pamela Giacoma Giovanna Orrùb. 1967ITItalian politician
- DJ Gruffb. 1968ITnot in their usual nameItalian rapper (born 1968)
- Elisa OrrùITPhilosophy, University of Freiburg
- Valeria OrrùITresearcher
- Damiano OrrùITItalian librarian
- Gianni Orrùbotanist
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)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Orrù mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname from Sardinian Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Orrù have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Orrù in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled orrù.
- How common is the name Orrù?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 269 people named Orrù, about 1 in 787 thousand residents.
- How common is Orrù compared with other names?
- In Italy, Orrù is the 866th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/orr%C3%B9The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Orrù” — the 866th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.