Pisano

surname · Latin script

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

Pisano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as Pisan (native or inhabitant of Pisa).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 73K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 3.5K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 6.1K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈15,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
321 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PisanoLatin(measured from records)
ปี่เสนาะThai(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)

Pisan (of, from or relating to the city of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy)

Sources 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 in the world(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.

Where Pisano is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈15,000 est.≈1 in 95K—Pisano3
IT Italy≈10,000 est.≈1 in 6.1KlistedPisano75
US United States4,5511 in 73K4.6KPisano321
KE Kenya≈2,500 est.≈1 in 22K—Pisano5
AR Argentina1,9541 in 23K2K—1
UY Uruguay9641 in 3.5K964—1
JM Jamaica≈94 est.≈1 in 30K—Pisano1

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. 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)

Pisano is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Italy, United States, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

    Also written Pisanò, Pisano', Pisanó, Pïsano

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Canada

    Also written Pisanò, Pisanó

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Pisanó, Pisanò

  • Swedish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Italy, Iceland

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Icelandic

    Also written Pisanò

  • Croatian surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Pizano, Pizzano, Pisanò, Пизано

  • Russian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Russia, Spain

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Pizano, Пизано, Писано, Пісано, Pisanó

36 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1000120014001600180020002200Bonanno Pisano, b. 1150Nicola Pisano, b. 1225Giovanni Pisano, b. 1248Andrea Pisano, b. 1290Nino Pisano, b. 1315Rosita Pisano, b. 1919Franco Pisano, b. 1922Berto Pisano, b. 1928Francesco Pisano, b. 1986Alex Kouto Horio Pisano, b. 2006

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 30 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Pisano
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.6K#7,331
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.5K#6,920
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.2K#7,559
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—2K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—964—
IT ItalyDizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978)———
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

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).
What does the name Pisano mean?
In Spanish, Pisan (native or inhabitant of Pisa)
In which country does Pisano have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Pisano in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pisano.
Where is Pisano most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pisano is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
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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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 2026-10-10.

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