Califano
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑɫiˈfɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Califano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian Califano.
- ARArgentina1 in 282K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 140K
- UYUruguay1 in 199K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 140K (inferred from the name graph)
871 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Italian Califano.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Califano 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 871 | 1 in 382K | 871 | Califano | 68 |
| AR Argentina | 161 | 1 in 282K | 161 | Califano | 34 |
| CH Switzerland | 60 | 1 in 140K | 60 | Califano | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 35 | 1 in 6M | 35 | Califano | 19 |
| DK Denmark | 21 | 1 in 279K | 21 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 17 | 1 in 199K | 17 | Califano | 5 |
871 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arcangelo Califanob. 1735Italian composer and musician
- Luigi Califanob. 1901ITItalian microbiologist (1901-1976)
- Joseph A. Califano, Jr.b. 1931USAmerican politician
- Salvatore Califanob. 1931ITItalian chemist
- Franco Califanob. 1938ITItalian singer-songwriter (1938-2013)
- Dan Califanob. 1944USAmerican soccer player
- Luigi Califanob. 1959ITItalian surgeon (born 1959)
- Christian Califanob. 1972FRFrench rugby union footballer
- Andrea Califanob. 2000USClyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Systems Biology Chair, Department of Systems Biology Director, JP Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center Associate Director, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Licia CalifanoITjurist
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 871 | #27,625 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 818 | #30,557 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 759 | #29,359 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 161 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 60 | #16,209 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 35 | #134,170 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 21 | #22,785 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 17 | — |
| US United States | wru 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 Califano mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Italian Califano. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Califano?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑɫiˈfɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Califano have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 871 people named Califano, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled califano.
- Where is Califano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Califano is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 140 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Califano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 871 people named Califano in 2010, about 1 in 382 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/califanoThe 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, “Califano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.