Cilento
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a historic region of Salerno, Campania
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɪˈɫɛnˌtoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cilento is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ARArgentina
- BRBrazil
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a historic region of Salerno, Campania
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Cilento 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, oriundo da região de Cilento; nome ligado a cis Alentum ou locus aquilentus.
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)
- Matteo Cilentob. 1829ITItalian painter (1829-1916)
- Raphael Cilentob. 1893AUAustralian medical practitioner and public health administrator
- Phyllis Cilentob. 1894AUMedical practitioner and journalist, specialising in health of mothers and children
- Nicola Cilentob. 1914ITItalian medievalist and university professor (1914–1988)
- Giuseppe Cilentob. 1923BRBrazilian chemist, researcher and university professor (1923–1994)
- Margaret Cilentob. 1923AUAustralian painter and printmaker (1923–2017)
- Diane Cilentob. 1932AUAustralian actress (1932–2011)
- Wayne Cilentob. 1949USAmerican dancer and choreographer
- Adele Cilentob. 1967ITuniversity teacher, medievalist, historian (1967-)
- Antonella Cilentob. 1970ITItalian writer
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 547 | #42,669 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 520 | #41,799 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 469 | #43,377 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 303 | #26,172 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 174 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 32 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #84,908 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #122,192 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 5 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #108,711 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Cilento mean, and where does it come from?
- a historic region of Salerno, Campania Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cilento?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪˈɫɛnˌtoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cilento have the most bearers?
- Cilento is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cilentoThe 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, “Cilento”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.