Fino
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: fine (particularly slender)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fino/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 29K
- USUnited States1 in 277K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, 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)
fine, thin
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fino is read(measured from records)
Fino is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish39%
fine (particularly slender)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English37%
The driest and palest type of traditional sherry.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fino in French.
- Portuguese5.6%
fine, thin
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
thin (having little thickness)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Fino 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 2 | Fino | 71 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Fino | 72 |
| US United States | — | 1,199 | 1 in 277K | 1.4K | Fino | 113 |
| PT Portugal | #775 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Fino | 70 |
| BR Brazil | — | 666 | 1 in 318K | 666 | Fino | 46 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Fino | 7 |
| HN Honduras | #584 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Fino | 13 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Fino is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, redução popular de vários nomes como Adolfino, Arnolfino, Serafino; também habitante de Fino
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Fini
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Alemanio Finob. 1500ITItalian historian
- Giocondo Finob. 1867ITItalian composer
- Ferdinando Finob. 1872ITItalian photographer (1872–1918)
- Paul A. Finob. 1913USAmerican politician (1913-2009)
- Claudio Finob. 1914ITItalian film director
- Carlos Finob. 1948PTPortuguese journalist
- Serge Finob. 1959FRFrench draughtsperson
- Bashkim Finob. 1962ALAlbanian politician (1962–2021)
- James FinoUSproducer, production manager
- Anna FinoITItalian mathematician
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 28 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,876 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,707 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,565 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 666 | #13,150 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #114 |
| 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 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Fino come from?
- fine, thin Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- How do you pronounce Fino?
- A machine transcription gives /fino/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Fino mean?
- In Spanish, fine (particularly slender)
- In which country does Fino have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Fino in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fino.
- How common is the name Fino?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,199 people named Fino in 2010, about 1 in 277 thousand residents.
- How common is Fino compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Fino is the 584th most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fino?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/finoThe 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, “Fino” — the 584th most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.