Sorrentino

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Sorrentino is one spelling over 5 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.

• English57%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Sorrentino in English.

• Italian14%

  Sorrentine (of, from or relating to Sorrento)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  habitante de Sorrento com suf. singular -ino.

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  Variante di Sorrento

  as a name·Dizionario dei cognomi italiani

• Spanish11%

  singular of sorrentinos

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• French5.7%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Sorrentino in French.

• Portuguese5.2%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Sorrentino in Portuguese.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Sorrentino is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Italy

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Sòrrentìnò, Sòrrèntìnò

• French surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Belgium

  Also written Sorrentíno

• Russian surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, United States, Italy, Russia

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Соррентіно, Соррентино

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

• Alfredo Le Perab. 1900ARnot in their usual nameArgentine writer of Italian parentage (1900–1935)
• Paolo Sorrentinob. 1970ITItalian film director and screenwriter (born 1970)
• Stefano Sorrentinob. 1979ITItalian footballer

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).

31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Sorrentino mean, and where does it come from?

Sorrentine (of, from or relating to Sorrento) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Sorrentino?

It depends on the language: in Italian /sorrentino/; in Spanish /sorentino/; in Portuguese /soɾɾẽtinu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Sorrentino?

Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Sorrentino in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sorrentino. After it come United States, Brazil, Argentina and France; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Sorrentino?

In the United States, the national register counted 4,956 people named Sorrentino in 2010, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.