Alfano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma italiana de Alfanus (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/alfano/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Alfano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 4.6Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 12K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 34Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 333 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Alfano
- Spanish:/alfano/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/alfano/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma italiana de Alfanus
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where the surname Alfano is found
(measured from records)Alfano 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 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | listed | Alfano | 53 |
| US United States | 4,724 | 1 in 70K | 4.7K | Alfano | 333 |
| AR Argentina | 1,318 | 1 in 35K | 1.3K | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Alfano | 62 |
| CA Canada | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Alfano | 78 |
| UY Uruguay | 292 | 1 in 12K | 292 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 235 | 1 in 50K | 261 | Alfano | 18 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Alfano | 2 |
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); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Alfano is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Alfani
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)- Franco Alfanob. 1875ITItalian composer and pianist (1875-1954)
- Graciela Alfanob. 1952ARArgentine model, actress, and TV entertainer
- Angelino Alfanob. 1970ITItalian politician
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alfano mean, and where does it come from?
- forma italiana de Alfanus Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Alfano?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /alfano/; in Italian /alfano/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Alfano?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Alfano in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alfano. After it come United States, Argentina, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Alfano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,724 people named Alfano in 2010, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Alfano?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alfanoThe 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, “Alfano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.