Decano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: dean (church dignitary)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɛkɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Decano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M
- RERéunion≈1 in 11K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dean (church dignitary)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Decano 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Decano | 59 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Decano | 4 |
| US United States | 125 | 1 in 2.7M | 175 | Decano | 94 |
| AO Angola | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 337K | — | Decano | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 814K | — | Decano | 6 |
| RE Réunion | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Decano | 1 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Decano | 8 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Decano | 4 |
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. 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)
Decano is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, senior, eldest person
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, do latim decanus, decano, comandante
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of decānus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Interlingua, dean
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 175 | #108,023 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 125 | #134,712 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Decano mean, and where does it come from?
- dean (church dignitary) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Decano?
- A machine transcription gives /dɛkɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Decano?
- In the etymology graph, Degano is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Decano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Decano in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled decano.
- How common is the name Decano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 125 people named Decano in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Decano?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/decanoThe 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, “Decano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.