Africano

surname · Latin script

Meaning: African (of, from or relating to Africa)

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

/afɾikano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Africano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 63K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 65K

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,900 people, est.

Sources
77 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Angola, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

African (of, from or relating to Africa)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Africano 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 Africano is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 25K3Africano57
PH Philippines—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 65K—Africano18
AO Angola#477≈1,500 est.≈1 in 22K2Africano21
VE Venezuela—≈450 est.≈1 in 63K—Africano21
IT Italy—≈300 est.≈1 in 207KlistedAfricano30
US United States—2911 in 1.1M291Africano77
PT Portugal—≈59 est.≈1 in 174K—Africano20

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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)

Africano is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia

    Also written Åfricanö

34 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)

Africano 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 Portuguese, African (of, or pertaining to Africa)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, do lat. africanus, ‘oriundo da África’

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Spanish, Lat. Africanus, ‘africano’.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

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

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Asturian, neuter of africanu

    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)

1940196019802000Pasquale Africano, b. 1944Albina Africano, b. 1945Mayra Africano, b. 1967Roberto Africano, b. 1983Manuel Africano, b. 2000

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)

FormalEstimado/a Africano,Dear Africano, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Africano,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Africano
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010291#67,747
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020262#78,629
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000260#70,273
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—3#113
AO AngolaWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—2#64
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 Africano mean, and where does it come from?
African (of, from or relating to Africa) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Africano?
A machine transcription gives /afɾikano/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Africano have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Africano in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled africano.
How common is the name Africano?
In the United States, the national register counted 291 people named Africano in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
How common is Africano compared with other names?
In Angola, Africano is the 477th most common surname of 23,432 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Africano” — the 477th most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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