Morante
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a personal name, probably a variant of Morando under French influence
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Morante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 5.1K
- PHPhilippines≈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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
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)
from a personal name, probably a variant of Morando under French influence.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morante 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Morante | 37 |
| PE Peru | #735 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Morante | 66 |
| EC Ecuador | #661 | 5,864 | 1 in 2.9K | 5.9K | Morante | 32 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Morante | 15 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,361 | 1 in 11K | 4.4K | Morante | 122 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 323 | 1 in 10K | 323 | Morante | 15 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Morante 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 Latin, ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of morāns
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Valentín Galarza Moranteb. 1882ESSpanish politician
- Milburn Moranteb. 1887USAmerican actor (1887-1964)
- Elsa Moranteb. 1912ITItalian novelist (1912–1985)
- Marcello Moranteb. 1916ITItalian writer and journalist (1916-2005)
- Fernando del Pasob. 1935MXnot in their usual nameMexican writer (1935–2018)
- Massimo Moranteb. 1952ITItalian guitarist (1952–2022)
- Laura Moranteb. 1956ITItalian actress
- Morante de la Pueblab. 1979ESSpanish matador
- Allan Moranteb. 1994FRFrench trampoline gymnast
- Jeremy Sarmientob. 2002ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Morante mean, and where does it come from?
- from a personal name, probably a variant of Morando under French influence. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Morante have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Morante in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morante.
- Where is Morante most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Morante is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Morante?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 5,864 people named Morante in 2024, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Morante compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Morante is the 661st most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moranteThe 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, “Morante” — the 661st most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.