Casanova
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative letter-case form of Casanova
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kasanoba/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Casanova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 2.6K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 3.1K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 314 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
14,861 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
for someone who lived in a newly built house, from Ro¬ mance derivs. of L casa house (see Cas.a) + nova (fern.) new. Vars.: Carass, Carras, Caress, Car(r)iss. Vars.: It.: Canova. Sp.: Casanueva. Cat.: Casanovas, Canovas.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Casanova is read(measured from records)
Casanova is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish62%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Casanova in Spanish.
- English18%
Alternative letter-case form of Casanova.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Francesco, Italian artist; Giovanni
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Giacomo, Italian adventurer &
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French6.4%
Jean-Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (1725-1798) fut aussi célèbre pour son évasion de la prison des Plombs à Venise que pour ses Mémoires écrits à la fin de sa vie, à Dux, dans lesquels il se flatte à la fois de son existence aventureuse et de ses bonnes fortunes. Son nom est devenu le synonyme de don juan, de séducteur.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
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)
Casanova 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #308 | 14,861 | 1 in 3.4K | 15K | Casanova | 187 |
| VE Venezuela | #438 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Casanova | 68 |
| US United States | — | 9,201 | 1 in 36K | 9.4K | Casanova | 314 |
| CL Chile | #368 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 1 | Casanova | 99 |
| BR Brazil | #987 | 6,304 | 1 in 34K | 6.3K | Casanova | 106 |
| UY Uruguay | #215 | 2,639 | 1 in 1.3K | 2.6K | Casanova | 41 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,467 | 1 in 3.5K | 1.5K | — | 35 |
14,861 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)
Casanova is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, for someone who lived in a newly built house, from Ro¬ mance derivs. of L casa house (see Cas.a) + nova (fern.) new. Vars.: Carass, Carras, Caress, Car(r)iss. Vars.: It.: Canova. Sp.: Casanueva. Cat.: Casanovas, Canovas.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Italian, composto de Casa e nova, casa nova; também oriundo de localidades homônimas
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Rafael Casanovab. 1660ESCatalan lawyer and politician
- Giacomo Casanovab. 1725ITVenetian adventurer and writer (1725–1798)
- Alejandro Scopellib. 1908ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player (1908-1987)
- Danielle Casanovab. 1909FRFrench resistance member (1909-1943)
- Antonio Puchadesb. 1925ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer (1925-2013)
- Sandra Torresb. 1955GTnot in their usual nameformer First Lady of Guatemala
- Corina Casanovab. 1956CHSwiss politician
- Alain Casanovab. 1961FRFrench footballer
- Sati Kazanovab. 1982RUnot in their usual nameRussian pop music singer in the girl group Fabrika (b.1982)
- Tristano Casanovab. 1983DEGerman actor
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 46 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 15K | #361 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15K | #361 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.4K | #3,681 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.2K | #3,851 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.5K | #4,355 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.3K | #1,892 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.6K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1.5K | #408 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- Where does the name Casanova come from?
- for someone who lived in a newly built house, from Ro¬ mance derivs. of L casa house (see Cas.a) + nova (fern.) new. Vars.: Carass, Carras, Caress, Car(r)iss. Vars.: It.: Canova. Sp.: Casanueva. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- In which country does Casanova have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Casanova, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled casanova.
- Where is Casanova most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Casanova is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Casanova?
- In Spain, the national register counted 14,861 people named Casanova, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Casanova compared with other names?
- In Spain, Casanova is the 308th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Casanova?
- A machine transcription gives /kasanoba/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Casanova mean?
- In English, Alternative letter-case form of Casanova.
- What are other forms of the name Casanova?
- In the etymology graph, Neuhaus is a form of the same name in other languages.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/casanovaThe 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, “Casanova” — the 308th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.