Giro

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/xiɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Giro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 39K(measured from records)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 68K
  • UYUruguay1 in 7.6K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,560 people

Sources
88 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

probably a habitational name for someone from Girona, Catalonia, from a derivative of the place name.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Giro is read(measured from records)

Giro is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Spanish39%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Giro in Spanish.

  • English20%

    A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese18%

    (take a) walk, return

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

    rotation, turn (the act of turning around a centre or an axis)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French8.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Giro in French.

  • Catalan5.6%

    first-person singular present indicative of girar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Giro 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.

Where Giro is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—1,5601 in 136K1.6K—1
ES Spain—1,2881 in 39K1.3KGiro82
IT Italy—≈560 est.≈1 in 112Klisted—9
UY Uruguay—4451 in 7.6K445Giro22
VE Venezuela—≈420 est.≈1 in 68K—Giro14
CR Costa Rica#898801 in 64K80Giro8

1,560 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Giro is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Giró, Girò

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Also written Giró, Girò, Girö

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Girò, Giró

  • Hindi surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Spain

    Also written Giró

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Girò, Giró

40 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Giro 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.

  • probably a habitational name for someone from Girona, Catalonia, from a derivative of the place name.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • unexplained, possibly from a pet form of an unidentified personal name.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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)

190019502000Gabriele Giro, b. 1901Maurice Giro, b. 1932Joelma, b. 1945Mario Giro, b. 1958Francesco Giro, b. 1963PC, b. 1994Stefan Giro, b. 1999

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)

FormalEstimado/a Giro,Dear Giro, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Giro,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 36 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Giro
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.6K#6,124
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.3K#3,549
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.3K#3,548
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—445—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—80#1,673
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———

Reference works 6

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 Giro come from?
probably a habitational name for someone from Girona, Catalonia, from a derivative of the place name. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Giro?
A machine transcription gives /xiɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Giro mean?
In English, A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions.
In which country does Giro have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Giro, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Giro most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Giro is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 7.6 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Giro?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,560 people named Giro, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.
How common is Giro compared with other names?
In Costa Rica, Giro is the 898th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Giro” — the 898th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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