Corsaro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: privateering, pirate
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kɝˈsɑɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Corsaro is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- 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)privateering, pirate
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Franco Corsarob. 1900USAmerican actor and voice actor (1900-1982)
- Antonio Corsarob. 1909ITItalian priest, writer and literary critic (1909-1995)
- Frank Corsarob. 1924USAmerican director
- Antonino Corsarob. 1946ITItalian jurist (born 1946)
- Mauro Corsarob. 1950ITItalian historian of classical antiquity (1950-2015)
- Antonio Corsarob. 1955ITItalian literary scholar (born 1955)
- Andrea Corsarob. 1958ITItalian politician
- Massimo Corsarob. 1963ITItalian politician
- Mauro Corsarob. 1975ITItalian psychologist and psychoterapeut (1975-)
- Sandro Corsarob. 1979USAmerican animator and author
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 938 | #27,242 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 810 | #27,901 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 387 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 29 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 25 | #31,192 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24 | #75,154 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 24 | #73,510 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 20 | #47,827 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 14 | #31,452 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #319,020 |
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 Corsaro mean, and where does it come from?
- privateering, pirate Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Corsaro?
- A machine transcription gives /kɝˈsɑɹoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Corsaro have the most bearers?
- Corsaro 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/corsaroThe 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, “Corsaro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.