Garofano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from garofano ‘carnation’ , ‘gilliflower’ (see Garofalo)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɡarofano/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Garofano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 152K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 215K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 390Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Record sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from garofano ‘carnation’ , ‘gilliflower’ (see Garofalo).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Garofano is found
(measured from records)Garofano 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 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | Garofano | 23 |
| US United States | 438 | 1 in 759K | 507 | Garofano | 176 |
| ES Spain | 328 | 1 in 152K | 328 | Garofano | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 388K | — | Garofano | 29 |
| BR Brazil | 106 | 1 in 2M | 106 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 39 | 1 in 215K | 39 | — | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Garofano | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Garofano | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Garofano 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, pink (Dianthus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, variante de Garofalo
as a nameDicionário 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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Tony A. Garofanob. 1885USpolitician in Massachusetts, US
- Luciano Garofanob. 1953ITItalian biologist
- Rey GarofanoUSAmerican politician
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Garofano mean, and where does it come from?
- from garofano ‘carnation’ , ‘gilliflower’ (see Garofalo). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Garofano?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ɡarofano/; in Italian /ɡaˈrɔ.fa.no/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Garofano?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Garofano in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garofano. After it come United States, Spain, United Kingdom and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Garofano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 438 people named Garofano in 2010, about 1 in 759 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garofanoThe 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, “Garofano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.