Esposito
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Esposito is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as diminutive of esposo.
- ITItaly≈1 in 612(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 15K
- UYUruguay1 in 3.3K
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
- 439 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 612 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
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)
ling, meaning literally ‘exposed’ (L expositus, past part, of exponere to place outside). At the present day this is the commonest surname in Naples. Vars.: Espos(u)to, Espos(t)i, Sposito. Cogn.: Sp.: Exposito.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Esposito is read(measured from records)
Esposito is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- English52%
Phil, Tony, ice hockey players
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish16%
diminutive of esposo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian15%
ling, meaning literally ‘exposed’ (L expositus, past part, of exponere to place outside). At the present day this is the commonest surname in Naples. Vars.: Espos(u)to, Espos(t)i, Sposito. Cogn.: Sp.: Exposito.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
do lat. expositus, 'exposto'; sobrenome dado a recém-nascidos abandonados e recolhidos em instituições.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Esposito 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 | #259 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 612 | 1 | Esposito | 126 |
| CN China | — | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Esposito | 7 |
| US United States | — | 22,789 | 1 in 15K | 23K | Esposito | 439 |
| AR Argentina | — | 8,011 | 1 in 5.7K | 8K | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,137 | 1 in 41K | 5.1K | — | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,255 | 1 in 6.7K | 1.3K | Esposito | 29 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,025 | 1 in 3.3K | 1K | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | #196 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Esposito | 3 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Esposito 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 Basque, Expósito. Botaten diran umeen edo esposituben etxia . (1864). BBatzarN 201.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Raffaele Espositob. 1900ITItalian chef
- Giani Espositob. 1930FRFrench actor, singer, songwriter (1930-1974)
- John Espositob. 1940USAmerican professor of Middle Eastern studies (1940–2026)
- Joe Espositob. 1948USAmerican musician
- Giancarlo Espositob. 1958USAmerican actor
- Giovanni Espositob. 1970ITactor, comedian
- Jennifer Espositob. 1973USAmerican actress
- Salvatore Espositob. 1986ITItalian actor
- Lali Espósitob. 1991ARArgentine singer and actress
- Francesco Pio Espositob. 2005ITItalian footballer (born 2005)
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 39 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 23K | #1,576 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 23K | #1,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 21K | #1,631 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.1K | #2,203 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.3K | #894 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1K | — |
| 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 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- Where does the name Esposito come from?
- ling, meaning literally ‘exposed’ (L expositus, past part, of exponere to place outside). At the present day this is the commonest surname in Naples. Vars.: Espos(u)to, Espos(t)i, Sposito. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What does the name Esposito mean?
- In Spanish, diminutive of esposo
- What are other forms of the name Esposito?
- In the etymology graph, Espozito is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Esposito have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 102 thousand people named Esposito in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esposito.
- How common is the name Esposito?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,789 people named Esposito in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Esposito compared with other names?
- In Italy, Esposito is the 259th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Esposito” — the 259th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.