Alfano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma italiana de Alfanus
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɑɫˈfɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alfano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 59K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 70K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 72K
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
- 333 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma italiana de Alfanus
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(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 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 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 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Alfano | 62 |
| CA Canada | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Alfano | 78 |
| UY Uruguay | 292 | 1 in 12K | 292 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 235 | 1 in 50K | 261 | Alfano | 18 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | 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)
- Robert Alfanob. 1941USAmerican physicist
- Graciela Alfanob. 1952ARArgentine model, actress, and TV entertainer
- Francesco Alfanob. 1956ITItalian Catholic archbishop
- Angelino Alfanob. 1970ITItalian politician
- Sonia Alfanob. 1971ITItalian politician
- Vanessa Alfanob. 1976USformer American weather anchor; founder of healthystyleny.com
- Daniel Baldib. 1981UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan exfootballer
- Janet Alfanob. 1982CZCzech pornographic actress and film director
- Joann AlfanoAmerican producer
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 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.7K | #7,088 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.6K | #6,772 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.3K | #7,433 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.3K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 292 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 261 | #6,697 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 235 | #7,146 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| 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 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Alfano mean, and where does it come from?
- forma italiana de Alfanus Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Alfano?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑɫˈfɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Alfano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named Alfano in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alfano.
- 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.
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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 2026-10-10.