Contino
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative form of continuo, a personal guard of the Spanish or Portuguese king
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑnˈtinoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Contino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 233K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 23K
- BEBelgium1 in 34K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Alternative form of continuo, a personal guard of the Spanish or Portuguese king.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Contino is read(measured from records)
Contino is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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%
Alternative form of continuo, a personal guard of the Spanish or Portuguese king.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish27%
obsolete spelling of continuo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian7.3%
inflection of contare:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
de Conte com sufixo singular -ino
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Conti
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Contino 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Contino | 36 |
| US United States | 1,427 | 1 in 233K | 1.4K | Contino | 235 |
| AR Argentina | 991 | 1 in 46K | 991 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 438 | 1 in 483K | 438 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 347 | 1 in 34K | 383 | Contino | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 127 | 1 in 66K | 127 | Contino | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | 57 | 1 in 59K | 57 | — | — |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Contino 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 Portuguese, alternative form of contínuo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Giovanni Continob. 1513Italian musician and composer, Maestro di cappella in Brescia, probable teacher of Luca Marenzio
- Bernardino Continob. 1585(1585-1654)
- Giovanni Saverio Continob. 1710Italian Jesuit (1710-)
- Salvatore Continob. 1922ITItalian painter (1922-2008)
- Fiora Continob. 1925USAmerican opera conductor and teacher (1925-2017)
- Dick Continob. 1930USAmerican musician, actor (1930-2017)
- Rita Continob. 1947UYUruguayan soprano
- Gabriel o Pensadorb. 1974BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian recording artist, musician
- Roberto Continob. 1974ITItalian physicist (born 1974)
- Francesco Continob. 1983BEresearcher
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,075 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,305 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,382 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 991 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 438 | #19,146 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 383 | #4,208 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 347 | #4,649 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 127 | #9,163 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 57 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Contino mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of continuo, a personal guard of the Spanish or Portuguese king. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Contino?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑnˈtinoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Contino have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Contino in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled contino.
- How common is the name Contino?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,427 people named Contino in 2010, about 1 in 233 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/continoThe 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, “Contino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.