Defino
surname · Latin script
Meaning: first-person singular present indicative of definir
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɪˈfinoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Defino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 485K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 89K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 194K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- 1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)
686 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
first-person singular present indicative of definir
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Defino 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 686 | 1 in 485K | 700 | Defino | 194 |
| BR Brazil | 339 | 1 in 625K | 339 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 151 | 1 in 301K | 151 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 443K | — | Defino | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 618K | — | Defino | 5 |
| MA Morocco | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Defino | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 38 | 1 in 89K | 38 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Defino | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Defino | 1 |
686 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 700 | #31,301 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 686 | #33,316 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 628 | #38,010 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 339 | #23,889 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 151 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 38 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Defino mean, and where does it come from?
- first-person singular present indicative of definir Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Defino?
- A machine transcription gives /dɪˈfinoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Defino have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 686 people named Defino, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled defino.
- Where is Defino most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Defino is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 89 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Defino?
- In the United States, the national register counted 686 people named Defino in 2010, about 1 in 485 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/definoThe 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, “Defino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.