Contino

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.

• Spanish:/kontino/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Italian:/kontino/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

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 word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Spanish27%

  obsolete spelling of continuo

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Italian7.3%

  inflection of contare:

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  de Conte com sufixo singular -ino

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  Variante di Conti

  as a name·Dizionario 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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

• Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Spain

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Contiño

37 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.

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 word·kaikki.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.

• Fiora Continob. 1925USAmerican opera conductor and teacher (1925-2017)
• Dick Continob. 1930USAmerican musician, actor (1930-2017)
• Gabriel o Pensadorb. 1974BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian recording artist, musician

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).

24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /kontino/; in Italian /kontino/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Contino?

Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Contino in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled contino. After it come United States, Argentina, Brazil and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.

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.