Maisano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a place in Calabria named Magisano (dialect forms Maisano, Majisano), from a Latin word, Magisius or Magissius influenced by Calabrian majisi ‘of (the month of) May’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məˈsɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maisano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 200K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 284K
- USUnited States1 in 317K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 200K (inferred from the name graph)
1,049 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from a place in Calabria named Magisano (dialect forms Maisano, Majisano), from a Latin word, Magisius or Magissius influenced by Calabrian majisi ‘of (the month of) May’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maisano 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,049 | 1 in 317K | 1K | Maisano | 58 |
| AR Argentina | 160 | 1 in 284K | 160 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 51 | 1 in 4.2M | 51 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 42 | 1 in 200K | 42 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | 13 | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | Maisano | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 7 | 1 in 1.7M | 7 | — | 2 |
1,049 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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)
- Giovanni Maisanob. 1851ITItalian mathematician (1851-1929)
- Francesco Maisanob. 1927ITItalian mathematician (1927-1989)
- Pina Maisano Grassib. 1928ITItalian politician (1928-2016)
- Micheleb. 1944ITnot in their usual nameItalian singer
- Riccardo Maisanob. 1947ITItalian byzantinist (1947-)
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,031 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,327 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 848 | #26,924 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 160 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 51 | #103,379 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 42 | #21,267 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #85,588 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Maisano mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a place in Calabria named Magisano (dialect forms Maisano, Majisano), from a Latin word, Magisius or Magissius influenced by Calabrian majisi ‘of (the month of) May’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Maisano?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈsɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Maisano have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Maisano, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maisano.
- Where is Maisano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maisano is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 200 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maisano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,049 people named Maisano in 2010, about 1 in 317 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maisanoThe 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, “Maisano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.