Nando
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the male given name Fernando
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nando/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nando is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 439K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- NLNetherlands1 in 23K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
1,280 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A diminutive of the male given name Fernando.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nando 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 1,280 | 1 in 165K | 1.3K | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 740 | 1 in 23K | 740 | — | 14 |
| US United States | — | 282 | 1 in 1.2M | 274 | Nando | 114 |
| ES Spain | — | 114 | 1 in 439K | 114 | Nando | 62 |
| SE Sweden | — | 45 | 1 in 227K | 45 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 27 | 1 in 206K | 43 | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | — | 23 | 1 in 184K | 29 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | #809 | 19 | 1 in 178K | 19 | Nando | 12 |
| BO Bolivia | #509 | — | — | — | Nando | 17 |
1,280 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021). 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)
Nando 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 German, männl. Vom., Kurzform von italie nisch
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Italian: short form of various given names ending in these syllables, as, for example, Ferdinando (see FERDINAND ).
as a word
In Filipino, a diminutive of the male given names Fernando or Hernando
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of nandus
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)
- Nando Pajarolab. 1935CH(1935-2005)
- Nando Mathieub. 1949CHSwiss ice hockey player
- Nando Lauriab. 1960BRBrazilian singer, guitarist, flugelhornist, percussionist, composer, music arranger and record producer
- Nando Fernando Moraisb. 1966AOassociation football player from Angola
- Nando Boersb. 1970NLDutch sports journalist and writer
- Nando Ireneb. 1973ITItalian actor
- Simon Collinsb. 1976GBnot in their usual nameBritish-Canadian musician
- Nando Rafaelb. 1984AOAngolan football player
- Nando Pijnakerb. 1999NZNew Zealand association football player
- Nando de Freitasb. 2000ZWcomputer scientist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 54 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Nando mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the male given name Fernando. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Nando?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,280 people named Nando in 2022, about 1 in 165 thousand residents.
- How common is Nando compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Nando is the 509th most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Nando?
- A machine transcription gives /nando/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Nando a male or female name?
- Nando 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.
- What are other forms of the name Nando?
- In the etymology graph, Ferdinand, Fernand and Ferdi are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Fernando.
- In which country does Nando have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Nando, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nando most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nando is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nandoThe 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, “Nando” — the 509th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.