Mauro
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: dated form of mouro (“Moorish”)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mauɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mauro is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Angola it is the 42nd most common given name.
- ITItaly≈1 in 414(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 622
- UYUruguay≈1 in 868
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 301 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 414 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Italian/Spanish form of Maurus; 'Moor, dark-skinned'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mauro is read(measured from records)
Mauro is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish53%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mauro in Spanish.
- Portuguese28%
dated form of mouro (“Moorish”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian6.8%
forma italiana de Maurus; pode referir-se também a mouro/infiel
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Dal lat. Maurus, 'moro, scuro'; nome di s. Mauro, uno dei primi discepoli di s. Benedetto, 15 gennaio.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
- English5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mauro in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mauro 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 | #395 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 414 | 92 | Mauro | 159 |
| BR Brazil | #169 | 144,544 | 1 in 1.5K | 167K | Mauro | 217 |
| AR Argentina | #228 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 622 | 3.1K | Mauro | 165 |
| PE Peru | #257 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Mauro | 78 |
| AO Angola | #42 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Mauro | 40 |
| UY Uruguay | #93 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 868 | 1 | Mauro | 81 |
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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). 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)
Mauro is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Italian/Spanish form of Maurus; 'Moor, dark-skinned'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
from the personal name Mauro, derived from the Latin personal and ethnic name Maurus, meaning ‘Moor’, ‘North African’; or from the same word, mauro, applied as a nickname or ethnic name. Compare Moore 2 and 3.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
From Latin Maurus ‘Moor’, i.e. ‘swarthy’, borne by one of the earliest followers of St Benedict. Feminine form Maura.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Fra Maurob. 1385ITItalian cartographer and monk
- Mauro Giulianib. 1781ITItalian guitarist, cellist, singer, and composer
- Mauro Bologninib. 1922ITItalian film director (1922–2001)
- Mauro Mendonçab. 1932BRBrazilian actor
- Mauro Paganib. 1946ITItalian musician (1946)
- Mauro Tassottib. 1960ITItalian footballer
- Mauro Fioreb. 1964ITAmerican cinematographer
- Mauro Camoranesib. 1976ARItalian footballer
- Mauro Icardib. 1993ARArgentine association football player (born 1993)
- Dukib. 1996ARnot in their usual nameArgentine rapper and singer (born 1996)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 96 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 167K | #306 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 145K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 144K | #233 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 698 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 443 | #233 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 143 | #625 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 92 | #196 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 41 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 41 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Mauro come from?
- Italian/Spanish form of Maurus; 'Moor, dark-skinned'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- Is Mauro a male or female name?
- Mauro is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Mauro?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 144,544 people named Mauro in 2022, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Mauro compared with other names?
- In Italy, Mauro is the 395th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Mauro mean?
- In Portuguese, dated form of mouro (“Moorish”)
- How do you pronounce Mauro?
- A machine transcription gives /mauɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Mauro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 151 thousand people named Mauro in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mauro.
What do you want to know about Mauro?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mauroThe 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, “Mauro” — the 395th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.