Fino
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: fine (particularly slender) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/fino/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Fino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Fino is also written Фино in Cyrillic.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 11Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 17K
- ITItaly≈1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fino itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Fino in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Fino
- Spanish:/fino/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/finu/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)fine, thin
Cited for this meaning 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 the surname Fino is found
(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Fino | 72 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 2 | Fino | 71 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Fino | 7 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 107K | 18 | Fino | 53 |
| US United States | — | 1,199 | 1 in 277K | 1.4K | Fino | 113 |
| PT Portugal | #775 | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Fino | 70 |
| HN Honduras | #584 | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 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 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)- Paul A. Finob. 1913USAmerican politician (1913-2009)
- Bashkim Finob. 1962ALAlbanian politician (1962–2021)
- James FinoUSproducer, production manager
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
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?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /fino/; in Portuguese /finu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Fino mean?
- In Spanish, fine (particularly slender)
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fino?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Fino in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fino. After it come Colombia, Angola, Mexico and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 2026-10-13.