Fiano

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Fiano, Italy; origin marked (T) (Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/fjano/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Fiano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sierra Leone than in any other country.

  • ESSpain1 in 224K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 442K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 540Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sierra Leone (inferred from the name graph)

≈780 people, est.

Record sources
134 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Sierra Leone, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Fiano

  • Spanish:/fjano/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Italian:/ˈfi.a.no/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Fiano, Italy; origin marked (T)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Fiano is found

(measured from records)

Fiano 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 Fiano is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SL Sierra Leone#192≈780 est.≈1 in 11K—Fiano1
IT Italy—≈550 est.≈1 in 107KlistedFiano15
ID Indonesia—≈420 est.≈1 in 674Klisted——
US United States—2731 in 1.2M302Fiano134
ES Spain—2231 in 224K223Fiano7
GB United Kingdom—≈130 est.≈1 in 536K—Fiano18
AR Argentina—1031 in 442K103——

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 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)

Fiano is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Fiaño, Fíãnô

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States

    Also written Fiaño

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Fiaño

28 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)

Fiano 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 Italian, a grape variety from Campania

    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)
1920194019601980Nedo Fiano, b. 1925Emanuele Fiano, b. 1963Carmen Fiano, b. 1968

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)
FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Fiano mean, and where does it come from?
Fiano, Italy; origin marked (T) Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Fiano?
It depends on the language: in Spanish /fjano/; in Italian /ˈfi.a.no/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Fiano?
Mondonomo estimates about 782 people named Fiano in Sierra Leone, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fiano. After it come Italy, Indonesia, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Fiano?
In the United States, the national register counted 273 people named Fiano in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
How common is Fiano compared with other names?
In Sierra Leone, Fiano is the 192nd most common surname of 628 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, “Fiano” — the 192nd most common surname in Sierra Leone. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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