Glorioso
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A boaster
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɫɔɹiˈoʊsoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Glorioso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 200K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 214K
- ARArgentina1 in 236K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 200K (inferred from the name graph)
1,553 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
glorious, proud
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Glorioso is read(measured from records)
Glorioso is one spelling over 2 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.
- English67%
A boaster.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish18%
glorious, proud
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Glorioso 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,553 | 1 in 214K | 1.6K | Glorioso | 51 |
| AR Argentina | 193 | 1 in 236K | 193 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 42 | 1 in 200K | 42 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 21 | 1 in 2.4M | 21 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 15 | 1 in 781K | 15 | — | 1 |
1,553 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Glorioso 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.
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of glōriōsus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, glorious (worthy of glory)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, glorious, illustrious
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Mauro Juan Gloriosob. 1914ARArgentinian sculptor
- Maria Fabrizia Baduel Gloriosob. 1927ITItalian politician (1927–2017)
- Giulio Gloriosob. 1931ITItalian baseball player (1931-2015)
- Francesco Gloriosob. 1942ITItalian rower
- Richard Gloriosob. 1943USAmerican politician
- Joseph C. Gloriosob. 1945USAmerican molecular geneticist
- Romella S. Gloriosob. 1964scientist
- Andrea Gloriosoauthor of Biblioteche oggi
- Chris GloriosoUSAmerican journalist
- Brad GloriosoUSresearcher
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,980 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,781 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,363 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 193 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 42 | #21,267 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #81,666 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #80,648 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 15 | #56,431 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Where does the name Glorioso come from?
- glorious, proud Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Glorioso?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɫɔɹiˈoʊsoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Glorioso mean?
- In English, A boaster.
- In which country does Glorioso have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Glorioso, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled glorioso.
- Where is Glorioso most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Glorioso is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 200 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Glorioso?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,553 people named Glorioso in 2010, about 1 in 214 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/gloriosoThe 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, “Glorioso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.