Neno
given name · Latin script
Meaning: forma popular e coloquial; redução de Maddaleno e Nazzareno
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neno is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 10K(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 41K
- SYSyria≈1 in 51K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
418 people, 2021
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma popular e coloquial; redução de Maddaleno e Nazzareno
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neno 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 418 | 1 in 10K | 418 | — | — |
| SY Syria | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Neno | 2 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Neno | 13 |
| US United States | 173 | 1 in 1.9M | 161 | Neno | 52 |
| IT Italy | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 395K | — | Neno | 6 |
| AT Austria | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 143K | 5 | — | — |
| PA Panama | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Neno | 3 |
418 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Neno is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, boy; male child, especially before puberty
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In chk, to look away
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, word
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)
- Neno Belanb. 1960HRCroatian rock musician
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 156 | #117,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 123 | #127,948 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 122 | #137,327 |
| 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
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 are other forms of the name Neno?
- In the etymology graph, it is recorded as a short form of Nenad.
- How do you pronounce Neno?
- A machine transcription gives /nnoʊ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Neno a male or female name?
- Neno is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Neno mean?
- Recorded meaning: forma popular e coloquial; redução de Maddaleno e Nazzareno
- In which country does Neno have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 418 people named Neno, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Neno most common?
- Neno is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Neno?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 418 people named Neno in 2021, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nenoThe 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, “Neno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.