Steno
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: a stenographer, someone whose job is to take dictation in shorthand
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/stɛnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Steno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 189K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 666K
- ITItaly≈1 in 678K
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
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 189K (inferred from the name graph)
≈92 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma regional e coloquial de Stevano
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
How Steno is read(measured from records)
Steno 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.
- English44%
a stenographer, someone whose job is to take dictation in shorthand
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Danish13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Steno in Danish.
- Italian8.6%
forma regional e coloquial de Stevano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Steno 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Steno 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 | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 678K | 1 | — | 5 |
| US United States | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | listed | Steno | 60 |
| DK Denmark | 31 | 1 in 189K | 31 | — | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 666K | — | Steno | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | 1 |
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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Steno 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 Serbo-Croatian, vocative singular of stena
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, shorthand
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Grieķu mitoloģijā - jūras dievību Forkija un Kēto radītais briesmonis, gorgona, viena no trim māsām
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)
- Michele Stenob. 1331ITDoge of Venice (1331-1413)
- Nicolas Stenob. 1638DKPioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop (1638–1686)
- Torben Stenob. 1959Danish journalist
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 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 31 | #15,900 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #44,610 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Steno come from?
- forma regional e coloquial de Stevano Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Steno?
- A machine transcription gives /stɛnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Steno mean?
- In English, a stenographer, someone whose job is to take dictation in shorthand
- In which country does Steno have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 92 people named Steno in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Steno most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Steno is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 189 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Steno?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 31 people named Steno, about 1 in 189 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Steno?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stenoThe 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, “Steno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.