Borromeo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: made the pilgrimage to Rome, or an amiable man who bore the given name Romeo, from bono good (see Bon) + Romeo

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 297K
  • SMSan Marino≈1 in 33K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈26,000 people, est.

Sources
104 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

made the pilgrimage to Rome, or an amiable man who bore the given name Romeo, from bono good (see Bon) + Romeo

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Borromeo 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 Borromeo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#696≈26,000 est.≈1 in 4.2KlistedBorromeo64
US United States—1,1211 in 297K1.2KBorromeo104
IT Italy—≈700 est.≈1 in 90KlistedBorromeo67
CA Canada—≈220 est.≈1 in 171K—Borromeo14
PE Peru—≈130 est.≈1 in 238K—Borromeo17
UY Uruguay—661 in 51K66Borromeo6
SM San Marino—≈1 est.≈1 in 33K—Borromeo1

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

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

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, France, Canada

    Also written Borroméo

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)

Borromeo 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 Romeo; rinvio etimologico a Romeo.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e 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)

1400160018002000Carlo Borromeo, b. 1538Federico Borromeo, b. 1564Federico Borromeo, b. 1617Vitaliano Borromeo, b. 1720Edoardo Borromeo, b. 1822Luigi Carlo Borromeo, b. 1893Giovanni Borromeo, b. 1898Christian Borromeo, b. 1961Aly Borromeo, b. 1983Beatrice Borromeo, b. 1985

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 Borromeo,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Borromeo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.2K#21,548
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#22,838
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000835#27,235
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—66—
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 4

  • 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 Borromeo mean, and where does it come from?
made the pilgrimage to Rome, or an amiable man who bore the given name Romeo, from bono good (see Bon) + Romeo Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
How do you pronounce Borromeo?
A machine transcription gives /bɔɹɹoʊmioʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Borromeo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Borromeo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled borromeo.
How common is the name Borromeo?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,121 people named Borromeo in 2010, about 1 in 297 thousand residents.
How common is Borromeo compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Borromeo is the 696th most common surname of 876,464 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, “Borromeo” — the 696th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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