Monacó
surname · Latin script
Monacó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname for someone of monkish habits or appearance, or an occupational name for a servant employed at a monastery, from Italian monaco ‘monk’ (from Greek monakhos ‘monk’, ‘solitary’).
- UYUruguay1 in 12K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 13K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 21K
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
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
8,198 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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)
- Italianmonaco(measured from records)
- Greekmonakhos(measured from records)
nickname for someone of monkish habits or appearance, or an occupational name for a servant employed at a monastery, from Italian monaco ‘monk’ (from Greek monakhos ‘monk’, ‘solitary’). Monachos is also found as a Greek family name. Compare English Monk.
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Wiktionary
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Monacó 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 | 8,198 | 1 in 41K | 8.2K | — | 170 |
| AR Argentina | 3,410 | 1 in 13K | 3.4K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 2,821 | 1 in 75K | 2.8K | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 401 | 1 in 21K | 401 | — | 28 |
| ES Spain | 297 | 1 in 168K | 297 | — | 22 |
| UY Uruguay | 279 | 1 in 12K | 279 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 166 | 1 in 71K | 166 | — | 20 |
8,198 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); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Monacó mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for someone of monkish habits or appearance, or an occupational name for a servant employed at a monastery, from Italian monaco ‘monk’ (from Greek monakhos ‘monk’, ‘solitary’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Monacó have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.2 thousand people named Monacó, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Monacó most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Monacó is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Monacó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,198 people named Monacó in 2010, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
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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, “Monacó”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.