Sileno
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɪleɪnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sileno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 240K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 323K
- USUnited States1 in 3.2M
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)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 240K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sileno 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 240K | listed | Sileno | 11 |
| US United States | 103 | 1 in 3.2M | 103 | Sileno | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 26 | 1 in 323K | 26 | Sileno | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | — | Sileno | 4 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | 2 |
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; the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Sileno is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In io, catchfly
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Silenus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, "Silenos, semidioses, fabulosos, silenoak, Jainkoerdi gezurrezko batzuek " Lar .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Savino Silenob. 1941ITItalian writer (1941-2008)
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 103 | #157,234 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 26 | #30,302 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| 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 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Sileno?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪleɪnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sileno have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 260 people named Sileno in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sileno.
- How common is the name Sileno?
- In the United States, the national register counted 103 people named Sileno in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sileno?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/silenoThe 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, “Sileno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.