Prono
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: prediction
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pʁɔno/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Prono is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 128K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 151K
- ITItaly≈1 in 549K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 128K (inferred from the name graph)
≈530 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
prone (lying face downward)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Prono is read(measured from records)
Prono is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- French46%
prediction
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish40%
prone (lying face downward)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Prono in English.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Prono 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 128K | 46 | Prono | 137 |
| AR Argentina | 301 | 1 in 151K | 301 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 549K | listed | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Prono | 5 |
| PL Poland | 17 | 1 in 2.3M | 9 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | Prono | 3 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Prono is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prōnus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, pronu . Prono. Erretorek igante güziez egin dezen pronoa. Bp I 19. Enzün pronoa, zoin diratian asteko bestak, barurak, eskümükiak, ezkonzen kridak. Ib. 117. Parropia mezako pronuan. Mercy 17. Pronuala eta beste ofiziuetara asestitü. CatS 46. Ederki egiten dituzue sermoiak, pronuak eta predikuak. Arti Tobera 277. v. tbn. CatLan 89.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Nelly Pronob. 1926ARParaguayan actor
- Franco Pronob. 1949ITItalian professor
- Jean-Charles Pronob. 1956FRFrench politician
- Renato Pronob. 1991PYParaguayan swimmer
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 301 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 99 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 95 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 91 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 17 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Prono mean?
- In French, prediction
- Where does the name Prono come from?
- prone (lying face downward) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Prono?
- A machine transcription gives /pʁɔno/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Prono have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 530 people named Prono in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prono.
- How common is the name Prono?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 301 people named Prono, about 1 in 151 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pronoThe 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, “Prono”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.