Importante

surname · Latin script

Meaning: important (having relevant and crucial value)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

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

  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 66K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 380K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 690K

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,700 people, est.

Record sources
40 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

important (having relevant and crucial value)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Importante 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 Importante is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈1,700 est.≈1 in 66KImportante40
ID Indonesia≈700 est.≈1 in 384KImportante2
US United States≈20 est.≈1 in 17MImportante36
AT Austria≈13 est.≈1 in 692KImportante8
CO Colombia≈13 est.≈1 in 3.8MImportante2
SG Singapore≈3 est.≈1 in 2.2MImportante4

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.

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)

Importante is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, important, that cares, that matters.

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

  • In Latin, ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of importāns

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

  • In Esperanto, present adverbial active participle of importi

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

  • In French, feminine singular of important

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

  • In Romanian, obsolete form of important

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Importante mean, and where does it come from?
important (having relevant and crucial value) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Importante have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Importante in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled importante.
How common is the name Importante?
Mondonomo estimates about 1,700 people in the Philippines have Importante as their first surname, about 1 in 66 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Importante”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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