Schiavo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: enslaved
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/skiˈɑvoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schiavo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 35M(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 9.6K
- ARArgentina1 in 69K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
2,856 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
enslaved
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schiavo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 2,856 | 1 in 74K | 2.9K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 1,615 | 1 in 206K | 1.6K | Schiavo | 100 |
| AR Argentina | — | 662 | 1 in 69K | 662 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 353 | 1 in 9.6K | 353 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 70 | 1 in 715K | 70 | Schiavo | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 53 | 1 in 159K | 53 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | #842 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 35M | listed | Schiavo | 119 |
2,856 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Schiavo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do gr. sklábos, eslavo; também pode indicar originário de áreas eslavas
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, grafia italiana; var. de Squiavo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Paolo Schiavob. 1397FRpainter (1397-1478)
- Giovanni Schiavob. 1903ITItalian priest
- Armando Schiavob. 1908ITItalian architect and art historian (1908-1995)
- Elena Schiavob. 1950ITItalian footballer
- Terri Schiavob. 1963USAmerican woman at the center of the Terri Schiavo case (1963–2005)
- Francesca Schiavob. 1970ITItalian actress and singer
- Grazia Schiavob. 1970ITItalian actress
- Maria Grazia Schiavob. 1970ITItalian classical soprano
- Axel Bachmannb. 1989PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan chess player
- Mary SchiavoUSAmerican whistleblower, lawyer and former Inspector General of the USDOT
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.9K | #3,581 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,202 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,455 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,418 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 662 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 353 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 70 | #35,502 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 70 | #35,173 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 53 | #17,837 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru 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
- What does the name Schiavo mean, and where does it come from?
- enslaved Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Schiavo?
- A machine transcription gives /skiˈɑvoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Schiavo?
- In the etymology graph, Ciao is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Schiavo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Schiavo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Schiavo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schiavo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 9.6 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schiavo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,856 people named Schiavo, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
- How common is Schiavo compared with other names?
- In Italy, Schiavo is the 842nd most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schiavoThe 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, “Schiavo” — the 842nd most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.