Curto
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: first-person singular present indicative of curtir
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kuɾto/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Curto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 15K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 34K
- UYUruguay1 in 11K
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
- 112 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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)
short (having a small distance between ends or edges)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Curto is read(measured from records)
Curto is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish41%
first-person singular present indicative of curtir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English31%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Curto in English.
- Portuguese11%
short (having a small distance between ends or edges)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Curto in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Curto 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 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Curto | 28 |
| ES Spain | 3,322 | 1 in 15K | 3.3K | Curto | 112 |
| US United States | 1,729 | 1 in 192K | 1.7K | Curto | 66 |
| BR Brazil | 1,362 | 1 in 155K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 1,326 | 1 in 34K | 1.3K | Curto | 64 |
| UY Uruguay | 300 | 1 in 11K | 300 | Curto | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | 123 | 1 in 68K | 123 | Curto | 6 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Curto 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 Italian, do lat. curtus, incompleto, truncado, curto; indica pessoa de baixa estatura
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Latin, to shorten, cut short, abbreviate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, a surname from Neapolitan
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)
- Amílcar Ramada Curtob. 1886PTPortuguese journalist (1886-1961)
- Silvio Curtob. 1919ITItalian egyptologist (1919–2015)
- Miguel Espinósb. 1947ESnot in their usual nameSpanish cyclist (1947–2006)
- Josep Curto i Casadób. 1947ESSpanish politician
- Marià Curto i Forésb. 1949ESSpanish politician
- Euprepio Curtob. 1952ITItalian politician
- Joaquim Josep Paladella Curtob. 1963ESSpanish politician
- Cristina Curto Luqueb. 1969ESSpanish judoka
- Víctor Curtob. 1982ESSpanish professional footballer
- Marco Curtob. 1999ITItalian footballer
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 26 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.3K | #1,550 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.3K | #1,550 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,586 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,973 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,949 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,121 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.3K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 300 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 123 | #9,394 |
| 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 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Curto come from?
- short (having a small distance between ends or edges) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Curto?
- A machine transcription gives /kuɾto/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Curto mean?
- In Spanish, first-person singular present indicative of curtir
- In which country does Curto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Curto in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled curto.
- Where is Curto most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Curto is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Curto?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,322 people named Curto, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/curtoThe 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, “Curto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.