Germano

surname · Latin script

Meaning: German (member of a Germanic tribe)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Germano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 133K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 13K
  • ARArgentina1 in 44K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,499 people, 2010

Sources
253 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

German (member of a Germanic tribe)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Germano 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.

Where Germano is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,4991 in 133K2.5KGermano253
AR Argentina1,0261 in 44K1K—1
UY Uruguay2711 in 13K271——
CH Switzerland1141 in 74K114Germano11
ES Spain731 in 685K73—6
FI Finland341 in 164K34—5

2,499 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Philippines, Canada

    Also written Germanò, Germano', Germanó

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Germanò, Germanó, German-O

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Philippines, Italy

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Germanò

54 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Germano is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, do latim germanus, ‘da Germânia’ ou ‘irmão legítimo’

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Benno, e Bennone nel caso obliquo, é derivato, come ipocoristico, dal primo elemento di nomi germ. composti con *berno-, da *beran- “orso”, come Bernardo, Bernolfo, Berengdrio (vy. Bernardi e Beringhiéri).

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In Italian, Variante di Germani

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • Fratello

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Latin, masculine/neuter dative/ablative singular of germānus

    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)

1400160018002000Girolamo Germano, b. 1568Isabelle Montour, b. 1667Virginia Ferni Germano, b. 1849Peter B. Germano, b. 1913Primo Germano, b. 1938Lisa Germano, b. 1958Carlos Germano, b. 1970Elio Germano, b. 1980Justin Germano, b. 1982Umberto Germano, b. 1992

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 55 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Germano
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.5K#12,432
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.4K#12,028
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.3K#13,001
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—271—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024114#9,971
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—73#34,451
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—73#34,218
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—34#31,332
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Germano mean, and where does it come from?
German (member of a Germanic tribe) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Germano?
In the etymology graph, Germain and Alemão are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Germano have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Germano, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled germano.
Where is Germano most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Germano is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Germano?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,499 people named Germano in 2010, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.

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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, “Germano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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