Pistone

surname · Latin script

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

Pistone is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 342K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 22K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 26K

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)

≈2,400 people, est.

Sources
219 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pistone 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 Pistone is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈2,400 est.≈1 in 26KlistedPistone50
AR Argentina1,2671 in 36K1.3K—2
US United States9741 in 342K1KPistone219
FR France≈290 est.≈1 in 232K24—2
GB United Kingdom≈170 est.≈1 in 381K16Pistone34
UY Uruguay1551 in 22K155——
BE Belgium1311 in 89K131Pistone15
JM Jamaica≈34 est.≈1 in 83K—Pistone1

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 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pistone is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Uruguay, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pìstone

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Italy

    Also written Pistoné

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Пистоне

34 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)

1920194019601980Tom Pistone, b. 1929Joseph D. Pistone, b. 1939Danièle Pistone, b. 1946Massimo Pistone, b. 1948Pasquale Pistone, b. 1968Pascal Pistone, b. 1970Alessandro Pistone, b. 1975Anita Pistone, b. 1976

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 21 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Pistone
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.3K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#25,728
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010974#25,403
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000950#24,642
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—155—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008131#12,367
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197149—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198144—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196128—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194121—

Reference works 3

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

In which country does Pistone have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Pistone in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pistone.
Where is Pistone most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pistone is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pistone?
In Argentina, the national register counted 1,267 people named Pistone, about 1 in 36 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, “Pistone”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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