Granato
surname · Latin script
Meaning: metonymic occupational name for a Jeweler or lapidary, from granato ‘garnet’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡɹɑˈnɑtoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Granato is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 285K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 15K
- ISIceland≈1 in 71K
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
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
metonymic occupational name for a Jeweler or lapidary, from granato ‘garnet’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Granato 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 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Granato | 34 |
| BR Brazil | 2,760 | 1 in 77K | 2.8K | — | 3 |
| US United States | 1,166 | 1 in 285K | 1.5K | Granato | 254 |
| EG Egypt | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Granato | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 308 | 1 in 148K | 308 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 34 | 1 in 100K | 34 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Granato | 1 |
| IS Iceland | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 71K | listed | Granato | 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Granato is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, grained (having grains)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, do lat. granum, “grão, cereal”; também ligado à mercancia de grãos ou tecidos tingidos
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of grānātus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, pomegranate
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)
- Dante Granatob. 1910CHSwiss musician and organist (1910-2007)
- Tony Granatob. 1964USAmerican ice hockey player and coach
- Giovanna Granatob. 1964ITItalian translator
- Don Granatob. 1967USAmerican ice hockey player and coach
- Bianca Laura Granatob. 1970ITItalian politician
- Cammi Granatob. 1971USAmerican ice hockey player
- Luciana Granatob. 1977BRBrazilian rower
- Anthony Granatob. 1981CABaseball pitcher
- Giuliano Granatob. 1985ITItalian politician
- Joseph Granato IVdirector and filmmaker
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 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.8K | #3,679 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,497 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,158 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 308 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 34 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Granato mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic occupational name for a Jeweler or lapidary, from granato ‘garnet’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Granato?
- In the etymology graph, Grano is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Granato?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹɑˈnɑtoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Granato have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Granato in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled granato.
- How common is the name Granato?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,760 people named Granato, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/granatoThe 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, “Granato”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.