Ninno

surname · Latin script

Meaning: first-person singular present indicative of ninnare

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

/niŋno/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ninno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 73K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 1M
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.1M

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)

≈850 people, est.

Sources
33 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

first-person singular present indicative of ninnare

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ninno 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 Ninno is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈850 est.≈1 in 73K—Ninno10
BR Brazil991 in 2.1M99Ninno33
US United States≈76 est.≈1 in 4.4MlistedNinno6
AR Argentina441 in 1M44Ninno29
ES Spain≈32 est.≈1 in 1.6M—Ninno5
BE Belgium111 in 1.1M11——
PT Portugal≈8 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Ninno3

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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ninno is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Ninño

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group
  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, United States

    Also written Nìnnõ, Niñño

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Ñiñño

29 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)

Ninno 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 Italian, var. regional de Nino.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Aragonese, male toddler

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In osp, child

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado Sr. Ninno,Dear Mr Ninno, (English)
InformalHola Ninno,Hi Ninno, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ninno mean, and where does it come from?
first-person singular present indicative of ninnare Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Ninno?
A machine transcription gives /niŋno/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Ninno have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 854 people named Ninno in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ninno.
How common is the name Ninno?
In Brazil, the national register counted 99 people named Ninno, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.

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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, “Ninno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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