Grano
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɹɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 72K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 493K
- FIFinland1 in 9.5K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from grano ‘grain’ (Latin granum), probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a farmer or grain merchant.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Grano is read(measured from records)
Grano is one spelling over 3 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.
- English46%
A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish36%
grain (the seed of various grass food crops)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese6.6%
first-person singular present indicative of granar
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Grano 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Grano | 21 |
| IT Italy | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 69K | listed | Grano | 45 |
| US United States | 675 | 1 in 493K | 963 | Grano | 107 |
| FI Finland | 585 | 1 in 9.5K | 585 | Grano | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 319 | 1 in 664K | 319 | Grano | 41 |
| CL Chile | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Grano | 7 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Grano | 11 |
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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the xinhua-italian-manual register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Grano 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.
from grano ‘grain’ (Latin granum), probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a farmer or grain merchant.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, do lat. granum, “grão, cereal”; indica produtor e mercador de grãos
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, granola (eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment etc.)
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)
- Antonio Granob. 1669ITItalian painter
- Carlo Granob. 1887ITCatholic cardinal (1887–1976)
- Romolo Granob. 1929ITItalian composer
- Bruno Granob. 1939ITItalian writer (born 1939)
- Umberto Granob. 1940ITItalian racecar driver
- Fanny Granob. 1997MXMexican association football player
- Andrea Granoactress
- Amedeo GranoITItalian economist
- Maria GranoITresearcher
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 963 | #26,649 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 675 | #33,731 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 368 | #52,827 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 319 | #25,081 |
| 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
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Grano come from?
- from grano ‘grain’ (Latin granum), probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a farmer or grain merchant. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Grano?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Grano mean?
- In English, A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg.
- What are other forms of the name Grano?
- In the etymology graph, Grana, Granato and Granero are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Grano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Grano in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grano.
- Where is Grano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Grano is densest in Finland — about 1 in 9.5 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Grano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 675 people named Grano in 2010, about 1 in 493 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/granoThe 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, “Grano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.