Giordano
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Italian form of Jordan, from Hebrew; gloss not stated
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɔɹˈdɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Giordano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 20K
- ARArgentina1 in 4.2K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 409 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Italian form of Jordan, from Hebrew; gloss not stated
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Giordano is read(measured from records)
Giordano is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- English52%
Italian form of Jordan, from Hebrew; gloss not stated
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- Spanish24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Giordano in Spanish.
- Italian8.6%
from the personal name Giordano, Italian equivalent of Jordan.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
nome dato ai battezzati con l’acqua del Giordano; in Germania talora identificato con l’antico Iornandes
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
forma italiana de Jordanus; Jordão
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French6.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Giordano in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(measured from records)
Giordano 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 | #925 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 146 | Giordano | 105 |
| US United States | — | 16,569 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Giordano | 409 |
| AR Argentina | — | 10,873 | 1 in 4.2K | 11K | — | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 572 | — | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 1.2K | — | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 771 | 1 in 11K | 771 | Giordano | 32 |
| JM Jamaica | #419 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Giordano | 1 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Giordano 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 German, Ital. Patronym zu Rufname Jordan; 221 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Luca Giordanob. 1634ITItalian Baroque painter (1634–1705)
- Umberto Giordanob. 1867ITItalian opera composer (1867–1948)
- Young Corbett IIIb. 1905USnot in their usual nameAmerican boxer (1905–1993)
- Ralph Giordanob. 1923DEGerman writer and publicist (1923-2014)
- Dick Giordanob. 1932USAmerican comic book artist (1932-2010)
- Daniela Giordanob. 1947ITItalian actress and Miss Italy 1966
- Bruno Giordanob. 1956ITItalian football player and manager (born 1956)
- Domiziana Giordanob. 1959ITItalian actor and artist
- Tyrone Giordanob. 1976USAmerican actor
- Paolo Giordanob. 1982ITItalian writer (1982-)
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 77 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,197 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,072 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,273 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 11K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 771 | #1,593 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 572 | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Giordano mean, and where does it come from?
- Italian form of Jordan, from Hebrew; gloss not stated Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Giordano?
- In the etymology graph, Jordan, Judd and Jordon are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Giordano?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɔɹˈdɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Giordano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Giordano in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giordano.
- How common is the name Giordano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,569 people named Giordano in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Giordano compared with other names?
- In Italy, Giordano is the 925th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giordanoThe 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, “Giordano” — the 925th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.