Signore
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A courtesy title for Italian men
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɪɟɲɒɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Signore is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 178K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 350K
- ARArgentina1 in 361K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 178K (inferred from the name graph)
895 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A courtesy title for Italian men.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Signore is read(measured from records)
Signore is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- English65%
A courtesy title for Italian men.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian9.0%
lord (ruler)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do lat. senior, título de respeito e distinção
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Signori
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Spanish8.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Signore in Spanish.
- French7.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Signore 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Signore 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 895 | 1 in 372K | 944 | Signore | 44 |
| BR Brazil | 304 | 1 in 696K | 304 | Signore | 38 |
| AR Argentina | 126 | 1 in 361K | 126 | Signore | 32 |
| BE Belgium | 66 | 1 in 178K | 66 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 24 | 1 in 350K | 24 | — | 1 |
895 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)
Signore 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 Latvian, Kungs
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Giuseppe Signoreb. 1872ITItalian catholic bishop
- Francesco Signoreb. 1886ITItalian volcanologist
- Monique Signoreb. 1935astronomer
- Mario Signoreb. 1939ITItalian philosopher and university professor (1939-2015)
- Oreste Signoreb. 1946ITItalian technologist (born 1946)
- Alberto Signoreb. 1959ITresearcher
- Daniele Signoreb. 1971ITItalian rower
- Giovanni Signoreb. 1978ITItalian chemist (born 1978)
- Andy Signoreb. 1979USvideo writer, director and producer
- Junior Callyb. 1991ITnot in their usual nameItalian rapper
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 944 | #27,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 895 | #27,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 876 | #26,239 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 304 | #26,108 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 126 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 66 | #21,354 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 24 | #32,062 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Signore mean, and where does it come from?
- A courtesy title for Italian men. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Signore?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪɟɲɒɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Signore?
- In the etymology graph, Signorile and Sieur are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Signore have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 895 people named Signore, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled signore.
- Where is Signore most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Signore is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 178 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Signore?
- In the United States, the national register counted 895 people named Signore in 2010, about 1 in 372 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Signore?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/signoreThe 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, “Signore”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.