Messineo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from an Italianized form of Messineos, the Greek adjective form of Messina (standard Italian Messinese)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˌmɛˈsɪnioʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Messineo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 171K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 373K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 700K
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
- 83 (measured from records)
- 1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)
891 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from an Italianized form of Messineos, the Greek adjective form of Messina (standard Italian Messinese).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Messineo 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 | 891 | 1 in 373K | 896 | Messineo | 49 |
| AR Argentina | 266 | 1 in 171K | 266 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 14 | 1 in 3.6M | 14 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | Messineo | 4 |
891 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Messineo 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 Italian, hab. de Messina, com terminação que recorda o suf. gr. -aiós
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Francesco Messineob. 1886ITItalian jurist and politician (1886-1974)
- Antonio Messineob. 1897ITItalian writer (1897–1978)
- Gaetano Messineob. 1943ITItalian archaeologist (1943-2010)
- Francesco Messineob. 1946ITItalian magistrate (born 1946)
- Emanuele Messineob. 1949ITItalian military personnel (1949-1974)
- Leandro Messineob. 1979ARArgentinian bicycle racer
- Antonio MessineoITresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-2366-6150)
- Daniela MessineoITresearcher
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 896 | #25,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 891 | #27,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 861 | #29,273 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 266 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #109,129 |
| 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 Messineo mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from an Italianized form of Messineos, the Greek adjective form of Messina (standard Italian Messinese). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Messineo?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌmɛˈsɪnioʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Messineo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 891 people named Messineo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled messineo.
- Where is Messineo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Messineo is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 171 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Messineo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 891 people named Messineo in 2010, about 1 in 373 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/messineoThe 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, “Messineo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.