Gravano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person plural present indicative of gravare
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/ɣɾaβano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gravano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 171K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 71K
- ITItaly≈1 in 218K
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)
- Record sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
≈290 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)third-person plural present indicative of gravare
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gravano 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 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 218K | listed | Gravano | 12 |
| AR Argentina | 266 | 1 in 171K | 266 | Gravano | 41 |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | listed | Gravano | 17 |
| BR Brazil | 83 | 1 in 2.6M | 83 | Gravano | 25 |
| UY Uruguay | 48 | 1 in 71K | 48 | Gravano | 8 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 997K | — | Gravano | 8 |
| BE Belgium | 18 | 1 in 651K | 18 | — | 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sammy Gravanob. 1945USAmerican mobster
- Luis GravanoUSColumbia University, New York City, USA
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 266 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 83 | #72,772 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 48 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 18 | #51,238 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Gravano mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of gravare Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gravano?
- A machine transcription gives /ɣɾaβano/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Gravano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 286 people named Gravano in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gravano.
- Where is Gravano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gravano is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 71 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gravano?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 266 people named Gravano, about 1 in 171 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/gravanoThe 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, “Gravano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.