Politano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitante de Politi ou Polito com sufixo -ano
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Politano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 472K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 56K
- ARArgentina1 in 78K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitante de Politi ou Polito com sufixo -ano
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Politano 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Politano | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 56K | listed | Politano | 17 |
| US United States | 704 | 1 in 472K | 709 | Politano | 176 |
| AR Argentina | 582 | 1 in 78K | 582 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 514 | 1 in 412K | 514 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 40 | 1 in 210K | 40 | Politano | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Politano | 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 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Politano 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.
In Italian, Variante di Politi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Silvio Politanob. 1890ARArgentinian association football player
- Wladimiro Politanob. 1940VEVenezuelan artist
- Matteo Politanob. 1993ITItalian footballer (born 1993)
- Antonio PolitanoITphysicist at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 709 | #34,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 704 | #32,632 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 589 | #35,994 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 582 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 514 | #16,690 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 40 | #22,077 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- What does the name Politano mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitante de Politi ou Polito com sufixo -ano
- In which country does Politano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.6 thousand people named Politano in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled politano.
- How common is the name Politano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 704 people named Politano in 2010, about 1 in 472 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/politanoThe 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, “Politano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.