Fiano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Fiano, Italy; origin marked (T)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fiano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sierra Leone than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- SLSierra Leone≈1 in 12K
- ITItaly≈1 in 175K
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.
- Sierra Leone (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈550 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sierra Leone, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Fiano, Italy; origin marked (T)
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fiano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SL Sierra Leone | #192 | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Fiano | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 175K | listed | Fiano | 15 |
| US United States | — | 273 | 1 in 1.2M | 302 | Fiano | 134 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | listed | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 223 | 1 in 224K | 223 | Fiano | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 567K | — | Fiano | 18 |
| AR Argentina | — | 103 | 1 in 442K | 103 | — | — |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
Fiano 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, a grape variety from Campania
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nedo Fianob. 1925ITItalian writer and Holocaust survivor (1925-2020)
- Emanuele Fianob. 1963ITItalian politician
- Carmen Fianob. 1968ITItalian ultramarathon runner
- Valentina FianoITresearcher
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 302 | #69,958 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 274 | #67,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 273 | #71,478 |
| 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 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Fiano mean, and where does it come from?
- Fiano, Italy; origin marked (T) Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Fiano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 554 people named Fiano in Sierra Leone, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fiano.
- How common is the name Fiano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 273 people named Fiano in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Fiano compared with other names?
- In Sierra Leone, Fiano is the 192nd most common surname of 628 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fianoThe 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, “Fiano” — the 192nd most common surname in Sierra Leone. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.