Taormina
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Cognome siciliano formato dal toponimo Taormina (ME)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɑɔɹˈminə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Taormina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 146K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 148K
- ITItaly≈1 in 20K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Cognome siciliano formato dal toponimo Taormina (ME).
Sources 1
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taormina 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 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Taormina | 36 |
| US United States | 2,250 | 1 in 148K | 2.3K | Taormina | 265 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Taormina | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 146K | 16 | Taormina | 23 |
| FR France | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 153K | 76 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 57 | 1 in 147K | 57 | Taormina | 6 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)
Taormina 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, oriundo de Taormina; nome ligado ao gr. Tauroménion
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)
- Carlo Taorminab. 1940ITItalian lawyer and politician
- Cal Taorminab. 1945ITItalian pianist (1945–2020)
- Daniela Patrizia Taorminab. 1958ITItalian philosophy historian
- Giorgio Taorminab. 1962ITItalian association football player
- Matt Taorminab. 1986USAmerican ice hockey player
- Giovanni Taorminab. 1988ITItalian footballer
- R. TaorminaItalian rower
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,497 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,319 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 76 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 76 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 57 | #16,859 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 28 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 16 | #104,899 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Taormina?
- A machine transcription gives /tɑɔɹˈminə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Taormina mean?
- Recorded meaning: Cognome siciliano formato dal toponimo Taormina (ME).
- In which country does Taormina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Taormina in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taormina.
- How common is the name Taormina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,250 people named Taormina in 2010, about 1 in 148 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taorminaThe 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, “Taormina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.