Lorenzo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Laurence
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lorenzo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common given name.
- ITItaly≈1 in 311(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 810
- UYUruguay≈1 in 1K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 426 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 311 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Italian form of Laurent, from Latin Laurentius, 'from Laurentum' / 'laurel'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lorenzo is read(measured from records)
Lorenzo is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Spanish50%
a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Laurence
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lorenzo in English.
- Italian8.5%
Latino Laurentius, probabilmente da Laurentum. Nome molto venerato per S. Lorenzo, martire del 258.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
forma italiana de Laurentius; v. Lorenzi
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French5.2%
Italian form of Laurent, from Latin Laurentius, 'from Laurentum' / 'laurel'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lorenzo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #36 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 311 | 3.9K | Lorenzo | 268 |
| BR Brazil | — | 146,787 | 1 in 1.4K | 147K | Lorenzo | 145 |
| US United States | — | 66,587 | 1 in 5K | 66K | Lorenzo | 426 |
| PH Philippines | #603 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Lorenzo | 108 |
| AR Argentina | #271 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 14K | Lorenzo | 119 |
| PE Peru | #263 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Lorenzo | 78 |
| PY Paraguay | #158 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 810 | — | Lorenzo | 35 |
| UY Uruguay | #87 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Lorenzo | 65 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Lorenzo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the personal name Lorenzo, derived from the Latin personal name Laurentius (see Lawrence).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
From Latin. See }Laurence in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Lorenzo Ghibertib. 1378FRItalian sculptor and architect (1378–1455)
- Lorenzo de' Medicib. 1449ITItalian politician, literary man and humanist
- Gian Lorenzo Berninib. 1598ITItalian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)
- Clement XIIb. 1652FRnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1730 to 1740
- Benedictus XIVb. 1675ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1740 to 1758
- Amedeo Avogadrob. 1776ITnot in their usual nameItalian scientist
- Yogi Berrab. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player, manager, and coach (1925–2015)
- Renzo Arboreb. 1937ITnot in their usual nameItalian actor, singer and director
- Lorenzo Lamasb. 1958USAmerican actor
- Lorenzo Insigneb. 1991ITItalian association football player
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 122 sources across 60 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 147K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 145K | #229 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 66K | #757 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 60K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 8.4K | #2,394 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 3.9K | #7 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3.1K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 2.7K | #47 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 2.1K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #229 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 186 | #757 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Lorenzo come from?
- Italian form of Laurent, from Latin Laurentius, 'from Laurentum' / 'laurel'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Lorenzo a male or female name?
- Lorenzo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lorenzo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 201 thousand people named Lorenzo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lorenzo.
- What are other forms of the name Lorenzo?
- In the etymology graph, Laura, Larry and Lawrence are forms of the same name in other languages; Enzo, Renzo and Loris are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Lorenzo mean?
- In Spanish, a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Laurence
- How common is the name Lorenzo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 146,787 people named Lorenzo in 2022, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Lorenzo compared with other names?
- In Italy, Lorenzo is the 36th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lorenzo?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lorenzoThe 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, “Lorenzo” — the 36th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.