Laiño
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/laiɲo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laiño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from Laino in Calabria, or a topographic name derived from medieval Greek lainos ‘from the river Lao’.
- ARArgentina1 in 33K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 277K
- UYUruguay1 in 8.2K
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
- 73 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Laino in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from Laino in Calabria, or a topographic name derived from medieval Greek lainos ‘from the river Lao’.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laiño 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.
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 575 | #7,149 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 575 | #7,141 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 345 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Laiño mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Laino in Calabria, or a topographic name derived from medieval Greek lainos ‘from the river Lao’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Laiño?
- A machine transcription gives /laiɲo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Laiño have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Laiño in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laino.
- Where is Laiño most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Laiño is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 8.2 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Laiño?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,365 people named Laiño, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lai%C3%B1oThe 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, “Laiño”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.