Allegro

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 675K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 39K
  • BEBelgium1 in 76K

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)

≈1,600 people, est.

Sources
172 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Allegro is read(measured from records)

Allegro is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.

  • English51%

    A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto.

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

  • Spanish14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Allegro in Spanish.

  • French12%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Allegro in French.

  • Italian9.6%

    cheerful

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

    do adj. allegro; apelativo de pessoa alegre ou nome de bons presságios

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Portuguese5.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Allegro in Portuguese.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Allegro 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 Allegro is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈1,600 est.≈1 in 39KlistedAllegro29
PK Pakistan≈670 est.≈1 in 349K—Allegro1
US United States4931 in 675K493Allegro172
FR France≈220 est.≈1 in 305K24—1
BE Belgium1541 in 76K154Allegro9
CH Switzerland621 in 136K62—9
UY Uruguay301 in 113K30——

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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

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

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States

    Also written Аллегро, Алегро, Alegro

40 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)

Allegro is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, allegro (tempo mark; passage with this mark)

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

  • In Romanian, ALLÉGRO adv. (Indică modul de executare a unei bucăți muzicale) În tempo vioi; repede. ♦ (Substantivat, n.) (Parte dintr-o) compoziție muzicală executată în acest tempo.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

  • In Latvian, Raiti, jautri, ātrā tempā (mūzikā)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

18001850190019502000Filippo Allegro, b. 1829John Marco Allegro, b. 1923Walter Perón, b. 1929Nunzio Allegro, b. 1946Alban Allegro, b. 1957Yves Allegro, b. 1978Samuel Allegro, b. 1978Donatella Allegro, b. 1981Martin Allegro, b. 1996

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Allegro
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010493#43,732
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020473#48,236
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000462#43,955
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008154#10,715
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202462#15,845
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197143—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198134—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—30—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195123—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194112—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Allegro mean, and where does it come from?
A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Allegro?
In the etymology graph, Allegretto is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Allegro?
A machine transcription gives /əleɪɡɹoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Allegro have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Allegro in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled allegro.
How common is the name Allegro?
In the United States, the national register counted 493 people named Allegro in 2010, about 1 in 675 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Allegro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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