Rosano

surname · Latin script

Meaning: oriundo de localidades chamadas Rosano; também pode referir-se a Rosà

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/rosano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 562(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 56K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 62K

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.

Uruguay (measured from records)

6,029 people

Sources
183 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 562 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Portuguese

oriundo de localidades chamadas Rosano; também pode referir-se a Rosà

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rosano 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 Rosano is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UY Uruguay#1136,0291 in 5626KRosano37
ID Indonesia—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 114K—Rosano50
IT Italy—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 35KlistedRosano39
PH Philippines—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 62K—Rosano40
US United States—9241 in 360K974Rosano183
AR Argentina—8121 in 56K812Rosano44
GT Guatemala—≈190 est.≈1 in 89K—Rosano3

6,029 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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: INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)

Rosano is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Rosanò

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Rosanò, Rosano', Rosanó

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Rosanó, Rosanò

  • Croatian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Philippines

    Also written Rossano, Росано, Rosanò

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Rosano is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, Variante di Rosa

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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)

18001850190019502000Pietro Rosano, b. 1846Ilana Yoffe, b. 1941Aldo Rosano, b. 1963

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)

FormalEstimado Sr. Rosano,Dear Mr Rosano, (English)
InformalHola Rosano,Hi Rosano, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Rosano
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—6K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020974#26,403
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010924#26,422
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000886#26,016
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—812—
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 2

  • 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

How do you pronounce Rosano?
A machine transcription gives /rosano/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Rosano mean?
Recorded meaning: oriundo de localidades chamadas Rosano; também pode referir-se a Rosà
In which country does Rosano have the most bearers?
In Uruguay, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Rosano, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rosano.
Where is Rosano most common?
Rosano is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 562 people carrying it.
How common is the name Rosano?
In Uruguay, the national register counted 6,029 people named Rosano, about 1 in 562 residents.
How common is Rosano compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Rosano is the 113th most common surname of 57,630 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, “Rosano” — the 113th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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