Moyano

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Moyano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Modianus, a deriv. olModius (from L modus measure).

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 696(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 1.4K
  • ECEcuador1 in 2.8K

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.

Argentina (measured from records)

65,336 people

Sources
175 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 696 (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Modianus, a deriv. olModius (from L modus measure). Cogn.: Cat.: Moya (also from a place originally named as the estate of Modius; cf. Moon i). Moyle Cornish: nickname for a bald man, from Corn, moyl bald. Moody).

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Where in the world(measured from records)

Moyano 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.

Where Moyano is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#10165,3361 in 69665KMoyano124
ES Spain#32011,5191 in 4.3K12KMoyano153
EC Ecuador#5425,9551 in 2.8K6KMoyano54
CO Colombia#674≈4,900 est.≈1 in 9.9K5Moyano72
CL Chile#459≈3,300 est.≈1 in 5.6K—Moyano83
UY Uruguay#2502,4501 in 1.4K2.5KMoyano34

65,336 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Moyano is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Italy, Peru

    Also written Móyánó

  • Swedish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Möyänö

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Moyano is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, habitational name for someone from Moya, from an adjectival form of the place name.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Spanish, Modianus, a deriv. of Modius (from L modus measure).

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

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)

14001600180020002200Sebastián de Belalcázar, b. 1480Hugo Moyano, b. 1944María Elena Moyano, b. 1958Diego Moyano, b. 1975Damian Lanza, b. 1982Alexia Moyano, b. 1982Facundo Moyano, b. 1984Javier Moyano Lujano, b. 1986Gabriel Moyano, b. 1992Álvaro Cortés, b. 2005

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 30 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Moyano
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—65K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—12K#484
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—12K#484
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20246K#669
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—6K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—2.5K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995116—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2012109—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2015108—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2010108—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2009108—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1998103—

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)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Where does the name Moyano come from?
Modianus, a deriv. olModius (from L modus measure). Cogn.: Cat.: Moya (also from a place originally named as the estate of Modius; cf. Moon i). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
What does the name Moyano mean?
Recorded meaning: Modianus, a deriv. olModius (from L modus measure).
In which country does Moyano have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 65 thousand people named Moyano, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moyano.
Where is Moyano most common?
Moyano is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 696 people carrying it.
How common is the name Moyano?
In Argentina, the national register counted 65,336 people named Moyano, about 1 in 696 residents.
How common is Moyano compared with other names?
In Argentina, Moyano is the 101st most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Moyano” — the 101st most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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