Forino

• Italian:/ˈfo.ri.no/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• Spanish:/foɾino/○(machine-generated) model-generated

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

Forino is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Italian surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

  Also written Forìno

33 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.

Forino 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, forma coloquial de Cristoforino, de Cristoforo; ou variante de Fiorino/Florino

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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.

• Gioacchino Forinob. 1797Napolitan painter. (1797-1858)
• Ferdinando Forinob. 1837ITItalian cellist
• Luigi Forinob. 1868ITItalian cellist, composer and music educator (1868–1936)

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).

15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.

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

What does the name Forino mean, and where does it come from?

inflection of forare: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Forino?

It depends on the language: in Italian /ˈfo.ri.no/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /foɾino/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Forino?

In the United States, the national register counted about 313 people named Forino, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled forino. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Forino most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Forino is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 420 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Forino?

In the United States, the national register counted 313 people named Forino in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.