Laino
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Laino in Calabria, or a topographic name derived from medieval Greek lainos ‘from the river Lao’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/laino/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 33K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 277K
- UYUruguay1 in 8.2K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Laiño in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from Laino in Calabria, or a topographic name derived from medieval Greek lainos ‘from the river Lao’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laino 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.
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
Laino 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.
possibly also Spanish, from the medieval personal name Laino, from Latin Flavinus.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, oriundo de uma das três cidades chamadas Laino; nome ligado a latinus ou a Lao
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Basque, fog, mist
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, n. ‘fog, mist’
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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)
- Domingo Laínob. 1935PYParaguayan politician
- Ivo Lainob. 1936EEEstonian football referee (born 1936)
- Alessandro Lainob. 1994ITItalian rower
- Teodoro LainoITItalian chemist
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.4K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,455 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 974 | #25,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 966 | #24,306 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 765 | #11,684 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 411 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 189 | #17,284 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 189 | #17,241 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 71 | #16,796 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 31 | — |
| 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 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Laino mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Laino in Calabria, or a topographic name derived from medieval Greek lainos ‘from the river Lao’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Laino?
- A machine transcription gives /laino/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Laino have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Laino in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laino.
- Where is Laino most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Laino is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 8.2 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Laino?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,365 people named Laino, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Laino?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lainoThe 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, “Laino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.