Maiorano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: possibly a variant of Maiorana, but more likely a habitational name from Maiorano di Monte, a locality of Dragoni in Caserta province
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈmaɪɔɹɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maiorano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 245K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 17K
- UYUruguay1 in 27K
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
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)possibly a variant of Maiorana, but more likely a habitational name from Maiorano di Monte, a locality of Dragoni in Caserta province.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maiorano 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 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Maiorano | 42 |
| US United States | 1,358 | 1 in 245K | 1.4K | Maiorano | 227 |
| AR Argentina | 692 | 1 in 66K | 692 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 488 | 1 in 434K | 488 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 288K | — | Maiorano | 31 |
| CH Switzerland | 206 | 1 in 41K | 206 | Maiorano | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | 126 | 1 in 27K | 126 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Maiorano | 1 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)Maiorano is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of maiōrānus
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)- Laurence of Sipontob. 440TRnot in their usual namebishop of Sipontum and Saint
- Nicola Maioranob. 1491Roman Catholic bishop
- Domenico Maioranob. 1966GBresearcher
- Masha Maioranob. 1982ITItalian basketball player (born 1982)
- Stefano Maioranob. 1986ITItalian footballer
- Sara Maioranob. 1992ITItalian association football player
- Irene Maioranob. 1993ITItalian association football player
- Ludovico MaioranoRoman Catholic bishop
- Maria MaioranoITItalian archivist
- Raffaele M. MaioranoITpresident of the Italian young farmers association and author
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,803 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,355 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #21,203 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 692 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 488 | #17,460 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 206 | #6,115 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 126 | — |
| 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 Maiorano mean, and where does it come from?
- possibly a variant of Maiorana, but more likely a habitational name from Maiorano di Monte, a locality of Dragoni in Caserta province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Maiorano?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmaɪɔɹɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Maiorano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Maiorano in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maiorano.
- How common is the name Maiorano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,358 people named Maiorano in 2010, about 1 in 245 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maioranoThe 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, “Maiorano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.