Degano

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: officer (of a ranch)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/deɡano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Degano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 80K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 263K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 300K

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.

Argentina (measured from records)

572 people

Sources
92 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

officer (of a ranch)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Degano is read(measured from records)

Degano 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.

  • Spanish51%

    officer (of a ranch)

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

  • English20%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Degano in English.

  • French15%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Degano in French.

  • Italian6.9%

    var. dialetal do norte oriental da Itália de Decano, do lat. decanus.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

    Variante di Degani

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Degano 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 Degano is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina5721 in 80K572—2
ES Spain1901 in 263K190Degano11
CH Switzerland281 in 300K28Degano9
BE Belgium111 in 1.1M11——
US United States——103Degano92
IE Ireland———Degano2

572 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)

Degano is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Italy

    Also written Dégano

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Philippines, United States, Canada

    Also written Dégano

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Dégano

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Dégano

35 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)

Degano 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 goh, genitive plural of dëgan

    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)

1850190019502000Alois Degano, b. 1887Pietro Degano, b. 1919Adriano Degano, b. 1920Pierpaolo Degano, b. 1950Marino Degano, b. 1960Enrico Degano, b. 1976Daniele Degano, b. 1982Valeria Degano, b. 1990

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)

FormalEstimado/a Degano,Dear Degano, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Degano,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Degano
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—572—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—190#17,212
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—190#17,174
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000103#147,095
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202428#28,759
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200811#67,888
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Degano mean, and where does it come from?
officer (of a ranch) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Degano?
In the etymology graph, Decano is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Degano?
A machine transcription gives /deɡano/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Degano have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 572 people named Degano, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Degano most common?
Degano is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 80 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Degano?
In Argentina, the national register counted 572 people named Degano, about 1 in 80 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, “Degano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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