Pisani
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pisani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Malta it is the 73rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Tuscany. This was probably founded by Greek colonists, but before coming under Roman control it was in the hands of the Etruscans, who seem to have given it its name.
- USUnited States1 in 119K(measured from records)
- MTMalta≈1 in 7.7K
- ITItaly≈1 in 8.3K
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
- 277 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malta, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Tuscany. This was probably founded by Greek colonists, but before coming under Roman control it was in the hands of the Etruscans, who seem to have given it its name. At any rate, the placename is of obscure meaning. Vars.: Pisano; Pisanu (Sardinia); Pisa. Dims.: Pisanelli, Pisan(i)ello.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pisani 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 | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | listed | Pisani | 60 |
| US United States | — | 2,806 | 1 in 119K | 2.9K | Pisani | 277 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,358 | 1 in 19K | 2.4K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,183 | 1 in 179K | 1.2K | — | 4 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 142 | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 223 | 1 in 15K | 223 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 178 | 1 in 31K | 178 | — | 11 |
| MT Malta | #73 | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Pisani | 67 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Pisani is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma plural de Pisano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Pisa
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Serbo-Croatian, masculine plural passive past participle of pisati
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, virile nominative/vocative plural of pisany
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)
- Vettor Pisanib. 1324ITVenetian admiral
- Francesco Pisanib. 1494ITItalian cardinal, bishop of Padua 1494-1570
- Alvise Pisanib. 1664IT114th Doge of Venice (1664-1741)
- Carlo Dossib. 1849ITnot in their usual nameItalian writer, politician and diplomat (1849-1910)
- Vittore Pisanib. 1899ITItalian linguist (1899-1990)
- Edgard Pisanib. 1918FRFrench politician (1918-2016)
- Sandra Pisanib. 1959AUAustralian field hockey player (1959–2022)
- Anne-Marie Pisanib. 1961FRFrench actress
- Elizabeth Pisanib. 1964USjournalist, epidemiologist; public health consultant
- Andrea Pisanib. 1987ITItalian actor and comedian (born 1987)
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 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,269 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,484 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,919 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 223 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 179 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 178 | #8,886 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 142 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 128 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 120 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 79 | — |
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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Pisani mean, and where does it come from?
- Tuscany. This was probably founded by Greek colonists, but before coming under Roman control it was in the hands of the Etruscans, who seem to have given it its name. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- In which country does Pisani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named Pisani in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pisani.
- How common is the name Pisani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,806 people named Pisani in 2010, about 1 in 119 thousand residents.
- How common is Pisani compared with other names?
- In Malta, Pisani is the 73rd most common surname of 5,132 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Pisani” — the 73rd most common surname in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.