Nardo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nardo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as nard, spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi).
- ITItaly≈1 in 8.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 20K
- BRBrazil≈1 in 99K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Nardo, originally a short form of any of the various personal names (of Germanic origin) ending with -nardo, for example, Bernardo, Leonardo.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nardo is read(measured from records)
Nardo is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English39%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nardo in English.
- Spanish27%
nard, spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian11%
from the personal name Nardo, originally a short form of any of the various personal names (of Germanic origin) ending with -nardo, for example, Bernardo, Leonardo.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
spikenard (plant or oil extracted from it)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
redução popular e coloquial de Bernardo e Leonardo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Portuguese9.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nardo in Portuguese.
- French5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nardo in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nardo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #534 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 1 | Nardo | 122 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Nardo | 23 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 87K | listed | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 223 | Nardo | 73 |
| US United States | — | 821 | 1 in 405K | 945 | Nardo | 91 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 94 | 1 in 89K | 94 | Nardo | 18 |
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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nardo 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, a farm and district of the city of Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of nardus
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)
- Angela Nardo Cibeleb. 1850ITItalian ethnologist and pedagogue (1850-1038)
- Dante Nardob. 1923ITItalian classical philologist (1923-1996)
- Luigi Nardob. 1928ITItalian writer and journalist (1928–2012)
- Don Nardob. 1947USAmerican historian, composer, and writer (born 1947)
- Pierrette Nardob. 1955FRFrench journalist, ethnologist and botanist (1955-2012)
- Alice Nardob. 2002ITItalian volleyball player
- Leslie Ashburn-NardoUSresearcher
- Cesare NardoRoman Catholic bishop
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 51 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2K | #4,857 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 945 | #27,085 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 837 | #27,176 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 821 | #28,940 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 94 | #11,616 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Nardo come from?
- from the personal name Nardo, originally a short form of any of the various personal names (of Germanic origin) ending with -nardo, for example, Bernardo, Leonardo. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Nardo mean?
- In Spanish, nard, spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi)
- In which country does Nardo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.3 thousand people named Nardo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nardo.
- How common is the name Nardo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 821 people named Nardo in 2010, about 1 in 405 thousand residents.
- How common is Nardo compared with other names?
- In Italy, Nardo is the 534th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nardo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nardoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nardo” — the 534th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.