Manzoni
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mansoni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Manzoni is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: There are several hypotheses: * from manzo (“steer”), as an occupational surname for cow breeders; * from Latin mānsus (“remained”, later “tame”), referring to a land worker, or the related Italian me.
- ARArgentina1 in 61K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 112K
- ITItaly≈1 in 11K
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
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
There are several hypotheses: * from manzo (“steer”), as an occupational surname for cow breeders; * from Latin mānsus (“remained”, later “tame”), referring to a land worker, or the related Italian medieval given name Manso; * from Provençal.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Manzoni 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 | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Manzoni | 52 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,893 | 1 in 112K | 1.9K | Manzoni | 79 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 144 | Manzoni | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 741 | 1 in 61K | 741 | Manzoni | 50 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 348 | 1 in 24K | 348 | Manzoni | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 295 | 1 in 11K | 295 | Manzoni | 14 |
| PY Paraguay | #924 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Manzoni | 13 |
| HR Croatia | — | 79 | 1 in 54K | 79 | — | — |
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 xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Manzoni 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 Croatian, talijanski pjesnik, dramatik i romanopisac, utemeljitelj realističkog romana ( Pjesme , tragedije Grof od Carmagnole i Adelchi , roman Zaručnici , eseji Povijest stupa sramote , O talijanskom jeziku )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Alessandro Manzonib. 1785ITItalian writer and poet (1785–1873)
- Ignacio Manzonib. 1797ARItalian painter (1797-1888)
- Luigi Manzonib. 1888ITItalian agronomist (1888–1968)
- Herbert Manzonib. 1899GBBritish architect
- Carlo Manzonib. 1909ITItalian writer and journalist
- Giacomo Manzonib. 1932ITItalian composer
- Piero Manzonib. 1933ITItalian artist (1933-1963)
- Flavio Manzonib. 1965ITItalian architect and automobile designer
- Mario Manzonib. 1969ITcyclist
- Diego Manzonib. 1990ITItalian footballer
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 30 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.9K | #5,134 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 741 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 348 | #3,793 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 295 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 245 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 212 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 190 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 184 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 181 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 153 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 144 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 112 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Manzoni mean, and where does it come from?
- There are several hypotheses: * from manzo (“steer”), as an occupational surname for cow breeders; * from Latin mānsus (“remained”, later “tame”), referring to a land worker, or the related Italian me… Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Manzoni?
- A machine transcription gives /mansoni/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Manzoni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Manzoni in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled manzoni.
- How common is the name Manzoni?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,893 people named Manzoni, about 1 in 112 thousand residents.
- How common is Manzoni compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Manzoni is the 924th most common surname of 30,328 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Manzoni?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manzoniThe 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, “Manzoni” — the 924th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.