Morino
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the medieval personal name and nickname Moro, meaning ‘Moor’ (see Moore 2)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Morino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 193K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 667K
- UYUruguay1 in 83K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- 1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the medieval personal name and nickname Moro, meaning ‘Moor’ (see Moore 2).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morino 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Morino | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 88K | listed | Morino | 17 |
| PH Philippines | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 193K | — | Morino | 12 |
| US United States | 499 | 1 in 667K | 563 | Morino | 148 |
| FR France | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 170K | 46 | — | 1 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Morino | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 41 | 1 in 83K | 41 | — | — |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Morino is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
meaning ‘forest field’; the name is not common in Japan.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
probably from the Latin personal name Maurinus.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, de Moro com suf. singular -ino
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Mori
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Zen'emon Morinob. 1928JPJapanese theologian
- Setsuo Morinob. 1950JPJapanese Go player
- Nobuhiko Morinob. 1970JPJapanese composer
- Masahiko Morinob. 1978JPJapanese baseball player and coach
- Izumi Morinob. 1981JPJapanese AV idol
- Hiyoko Morinob. 1983JPJapanese AV idol
- Mako Morinob. 1987JPJapanese seiyū
- Marina Morinob. 1987JPJapanese AV actress
- Hina Morinob. 1989JPJapanese AV idol
- Asuka Morinob. 1996JPJapanese actress
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 563 | #37,266 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 550 | #42,463 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 499 | #43,285 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 43 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 41 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Morino mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the medieval personal name and nickname Moro, meaning ‘Moor’ (see Moore 2). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Morino have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Morino in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morino.
- Where is Morino most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Morino is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 83 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Morino?
- In the United States, the national register counted 499 people named Morino in 2010, about 1 in 667 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morinoThe 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, “Morino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.