Gano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Ganeau, Ganot, or Gueneau, all derived from a personal name based on the Germanic element wan ‘hope’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 152K
- SNSenegal≈1 in 6K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 248 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Ganeau, Ganot, or Gueneau, all derived from a personal name based on the Germanic element wan ‘hope’. This name came to America with the Huguenots.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gano 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Gano | 41 |
| SN Senegal | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 5 | Gano | 3 |
| US United States | 2,183 | 1 in 152K | 2.2K | Gano | 248 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 256K | — | Gano | 15 |
| PL Poland | 401 | 1 in 95K | 204 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Gano | 37 |
| AL Albania | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 33 | — | — |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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)
Gano is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, first-person singular present indicative of ganar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, first-person singular present indicative of ganir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, soft mutation of cano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nkr, flesh of, meat of
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mnv, lake; fetal water
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- John Ganob. 1727USAmerican Baptist minister
- Stephen Ganob. 1762USAmerican physician (1762-1828)
- John Stites Ganob. 1766US1766-1821
- Aaron G. Ganob. 1798US6 Mar 1798 - 2 Dec 1854
- Richard Montgomery Ganob. 1830USConfederate Army general (1830-1913)
- Stanisław Ganob. 1895PLPolish officer (1895-1968)
- Roy Alexander Ganob. 1902USUnited States vice admiral (1902-1971)
- Gordon Ganob. 1963USAmerican singer, songwriter
- Graham Ganob. 1987GBScottish player of American football
- Lurdes GanoPTresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,845 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,755 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,157 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 204 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 204 | #15,864 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 197 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 197 | #16,653 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 5 | #66 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Gano come from?
- variant of Ganeau, Ganot, or Gueneau, all derived from a personal name based on the Germanic element wan ‘hope’. This name came to America with the Huguenots. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Gano mean?
- Recorded meaning: variant of Ganeau, Ganot, or Gueneau, all derived from a personal name based on the Germanic element wan ‘hope’.
- In which country does Gano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Gano in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gano.
- How common is the name Gano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,183 people named Gano in 2010, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ganoThe 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, “Gano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.