Morgante
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Old Italian Morgante, Old French Morgant (in medieval French an adjective meaning ‘proud’, ‘scornful’), the name of a giant in a poem by Pulci
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɔɹˈɡɑnti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morgante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 75K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 94K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 210K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
485 people
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Old Italian Morgante, Old French Morgant (in medieval French an adjective meaning ‘proud’, ‘scornful’), the name of a giant in a poem by Pulci.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morgante 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 485 | 1 in 94K | 485 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 480 | 1 in 441K | 480 | — | — |
| US United States | 343 | 1 in 970K | 531 | Morgante | 66 |
| BE Belgium | 157 | 1 in 75K | 157 | Morgante | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | 40 | 1 in 210K | 40 | — | 1 |
485 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Federico Morganteb. 1898ITItalian painter (1898-1975)
- Sergio Morganteb. 1905geologist (1905-)
- Marcello Morganteb. 1915ITItalian priest (1915–2007)
- Domenico Morganteb. 1956ITItalian musicologist and musician
- Marco Morganteb. 1962FRFrench association football player
- Barbara Morganteb. 1962ITItalian chief executive
- Vincenzo Morganteb. 1963ITItalian journalist
- Gaetana Morganteb. 1974ITItalian jurist (born 1974)
- Filippo MorganteITItalian classicist
- Enrico MorganteCHresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-9389-0353
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 531 | #43,758 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 485 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 480 | #17,702 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 366 | #53,047 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 343 | #59,017 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 157 | #10,539 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 40 | #22,077 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Morgante mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old Italian Morgante, Old French Morgant (in medieval French an adjective meaning ‘proud’, ‘scornful’), the name of a giant in a poem by Pulci. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Morgante?
- A machine transcription gives /mɔɹˈɡɑnti/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Morgante have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 485 people named Morgante, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Morgante most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Morgante is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Morgante?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 485 people named Morgante, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morganteThe 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, “Morgante”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.