Pantano
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: swamp, marsh
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɑnˈtɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pantano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 217K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 35K
- BEBelgium1 in 121K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
1,532 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
swamp, marsh
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pantano is read(measured from records)
Pantano is one spelling over 3 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.
- English50%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pantano in English.
- Spanish31%
swamp, marsh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian5.5%
do termo pré-latino palta; indica habitante de área pantanosa ou de lugarejo chamado Pantano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
quagmire, marsh, swamp, bog
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Pantano 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,532 | 1 in 217K | 1.5K | Pantano | 243 |
| AR Argentina | 1,306 | 1 in 35K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 908 | 1 in 233K | 908 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 97 | 1 in 121K | 97 | Pantano | 9 |
| ES Spain | 85 | 1 in 588K | 85 | Pantano | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 64 | 1 in 131K | 64 | Pantano | 6 |
1,532 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)
Pantano 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 Basque, ( AN-gip ). "Árbol de hojas anchas (¿plátano?)" BU Arano . Cf. pántano, pantano 'plátano' en el cast. de Orio (Echaide Orio 130).
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Basque, ( V-ple-ger-m-gip, G-goi-azp, AN-larr-ulz-erro, Ae, R-uzt ). Pantano, embalse . "Pantano" EAEL 464. . Goiko presa, pantano aundi batena, gorriak dinamitaz bota ta urak golpeka-golpeka gora . JAzpiroz Auspoa 203, 152.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Edoardo Pantanob. 1842ITItalian politician and writer (1842-1932)
- Franco Pantanob. 1960ITItalian rower
- Stefano Pantanob. 1962ITfencer
- Willy Crookb. 1965ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian composer and singer (1965-2021)
- Ilario Pantanob. 1971USU.S. Marine
- Daniele Pantanob. 1976CHSwiss academic and poet
- Giancarlo Pantanob. 1977ITItalian footballer
- Giorgio Pantanob. 1979ITItalian racing driver
- Kai Pantanob. 1987AUAustralian actor
- Jarlinson Pantanob. 1988COcyclist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,166 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,324 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,812 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 908 | #10,137 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 97 | #15,931 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 85 | #30,968 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 85 | #30,801 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 64 | #15,489 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Pantano mean, and where does it come from?
- swamp, marsh Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pantano?
- A machine transcription gives /pɑnˈtɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pantano have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Pantano, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pantano.
- Where is Pantano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pantano is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pantano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,532 people named Pantano in 2010, about 1 in 217 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pantano?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pantanoThe 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, “Pantano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.