Pisano
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Pisan (native or inhabitant of Pisa) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/pisano/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Pisano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Pisano is also written ปี่เสนาะ in Thai.
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.2Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 3.5K
- ARArgentina1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pisano itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 321 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Pisano in other scripts: Thai
(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.
How to pronounce Pisano
- Spanish:/pisano/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/pisano/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Pisan (of, from or relating to the city of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Pisano is read
(measured from records)Pisano is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- English55%
Italian sculptor; Giovanni, Italian
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Andrea, Italian sculptor; Nicola,
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
sculptor, architect
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish21%
Pisan (native or inhabitant of Pisa)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian9.6%
Pisan (of, from or relating to the city of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
habitante de Pisa; também pode indicar alguém de Pisano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pisano in French.
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 the surname Pisano is found
(measured from records)Pisano 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 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | listed | Pisano | 75 |
| US United States | 4,551 | 1 in 73K | 4.6K | Pisano | 321 |
| KE Kenya | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Pisano | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 1,954 | 1 in 23K | 2K | — | 1 |
| FR France | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 143 | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 964 | 1 in 3.5K | 964 | — | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Pisano | 1 |
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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Nicola Pisanob. 1225ITItalian sculptor and architect (1225–1284)
- Giovanni Pisanob. 1248ITItalian sculptor and architect
- Andrea Pisanob. 1290IT14th century Italian sculptor and architect (1290–1348)
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Pisano come from?
- Pisan (of, from or relating to the city of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pisano?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /pisano/; in Italian /pisano/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Pisano mean?
- In Spanish, Pisan (native or inhabitant of Pisa)
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pisano?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Pisano in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pisano. After it come United States, Kenya, Argentina and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Pisano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,551 people named Pisano in 2010, about 1 in 73 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pisanoThe 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, “Pisano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.