Crispo

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Crispo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: first-person singular present indicative of crispar.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 266K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 153K
  • USUnited States1 in 741K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

449 people, 2010

Sources
71 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 153K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

first-person singular present indicative of crispar

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Crispo is read(measured from records)

Crispo 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.

  • English57%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Crispo in English.

  • Spanish21%

    Latin Crispus, 'curly-haired; frizzy'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Italian7.4%

    forma italiana de Crispus

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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

Crispo 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.

Where Crispo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4491 in 741K453Crispo41
AR Argentina1711 in 266K171Crispo32
BR Brazil681 in 3.1M68Crispo10
CH Switzerland551 in 153K55—2
ES Spain211 in 2.4M21Crispo5
BE Belgium41 in 2.9M4—1

449 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States, Kuwait

    Also written Cřişpo

31 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Crispo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, first-person singular present indicative of crispar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • De pelo rizado, crespo

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Latin, to curl, crimp

    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)

500100015002000Benedict, b. 700Fiorenza Crispo, b. 1422Tiberio Crispo, b. 1498Giacomo IV Crispo, b. 1520Giovan Battista Crispo, b. 1550Carlo Crispo Moncada, b. 1842Amerigo Crispo, b. 1886Vittoria Crispo, b. 1900Lino Crispo, b. 1916

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Crispo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000453#44,654
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010449#47,272
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020431#52,071
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—171—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—68#84,221
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202455#17,311
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—21#82,894
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—21#80,648
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20084#109,513
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Crispo mean, and where does it come from?
first-person singular present indicative of crispar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Crispo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 449 people named Crispo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crispo.
Where is Crispo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Crispo is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 153 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Crispo?
In the United States, the national register counted 449 people named Crispo in 2010, about 1 in 741 thousand residents.

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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, “Crispo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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