Pagano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pagan, heathen
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pagano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 39K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 46K
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
- 340 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pagan, heathen
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pagano 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 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | listed | Pagano | 80 |
| US United States | 8,465 | 1 in 39K | 8.5K | Pagano | 340 |
| AR Argentina | 4,601 | 1 in 9.9K | 4.6K | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 1,813 | 1 in 117K | 1.8K | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 197 | Pagano | 74 |
| UY Uruguay | 611 | 1 in 5.5K | 611 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 392 | 1 in 21K | 392 | Pagano | 15 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Pagano | 2 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
Pagano is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Probabilmente in origine soprannome; oppure nome imposto a un bambino nato in Levante (Pagania).
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, do lat. paganus, aldeão/camponês; também pode ser patronímico de nome medieval
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Pagani
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of pāgānus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, pagan (male or of unspecified sex)
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)
- Hugues de Paynsb. 1074ITnot in their usual nameGrand Master of the Knights Templar
- Francesco Mario Paganob. 1748ITItalian jurist and author
- Bartolomeo Paganob. 1878ITItalian actor (1878-1947)
- Angelina Paganob. 1888ARArgentinian actor (1888–1962)
- Giuseppe Paganob. 1896HRItalian architect (1896-1945)
- Ernest Paganob. 1901USscreenwriter (1901-1953)
- Sergio Paganob. 1948ITItalian bishop and archivist (born 1948)
- Gianmario Paganob. 1962ITscreenwriter. priest and writer
- Emmanuelle Salascb. 1969FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer
- Luca Paganob. 1978ITItalian poker player
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 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.5K | #4,186 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.3K | #3,944 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.9K | #4,365 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 4.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.8K | #5,356 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 611 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 392 | #3,361 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 197 | #21,496 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| 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 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- What does the name Pagano mean, and where does it come from?
- pagan, heathen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pagano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Pagano in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pagano.
- How common is the name Pagano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,465 people named Pagano in 2010, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paganoThe 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, “Pagano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.