Fornaro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as an occupation
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fɔɹnɑɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fornaro is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a surname originating as an occupation
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- FRFrance
- BRBrazil
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Fornaro is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Rome, Ancona, Florence
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, do lat. furnarius; forma arcaica e setentrional de fornaio
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Fornari
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)
- Cosimo Fornarob. 1928ITItalian writer and teacher
- Italo Fornarob. 1941ITItalian Franciscan friar and historian (1941-2017)
- Milton Fornarob. 1947UYUruguayan writer
- Pasquale Fornarob. 1949ITItalian historian (born 1949)
- Federico Fornarob. 1962ITItalian politician
- Sotera Fornarob. 1964ITItalian classical philologist (1964-)
- Pierangelo Fornarob. 1970ITItalian composer
- Tanja Fornarob. 1973DEGerman actress
- Ana Fornarob. 1983UYUruguayan writer
- Luca FornaroGBPh.D. London School of Economics and Political Science 2013
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 405 | #54,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 378 | #54,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 363 | #53,420 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 249 | #30,713 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 210 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 143 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 100 | #11,072 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 38 | #54,510 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 38 | #53,553 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 28 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 26 | #40,872 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 21 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- What does the name Fornaro mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as an occupation Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fornaro?
- A machine transcription gives /fɔɹnɑɹoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fornaro have the most bearers?
- Fornaro is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Fornaro?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fornaroThe 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, “Fornaro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.