Tarantino
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A dialect of Neapolitan spoken in and around Taranto in Apulia
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tɑɹɑnˈtinoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tarantino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 70K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 80K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 29K
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
- 148 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
4,158 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A dialect of Neapolitan spoken in and around Taranto in Apulia.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tarantino is read(measured from records)
Tarantino is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- English64%
A dialect of Neapolitan spoken in and around Taranto in Apulia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Quentin, US screenwriter
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Italian13%
of, from or relating to Taranto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
hab. de Taranto com o suf. sing. -ino
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Spanish10%
of, from or relating to Tarento
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Tarantino 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 | — | 4,158 | 1 in 80K | 4.2K | Tarantino | 148 |
| AR Argentina | — | 650 | 1 in 70K | 650 | Tarantino | 48 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 287 | 1 in 29K | 287 | Tarantino | 23 |
| BR Brazil | — | 276 | 1 in 767K | 276 | Tarantino | 55 |
| ES Spain | — | 181 | 1 in 276K | 181 | Tarantino | 40 |
| BE Belgium | — | 60 | 1 in 195K | 60 | Tarantino | 9 |
| IT Italy | #309 | — | — | listed | Tarantino | 130 |
4,158 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: the xinhua-italian-manual register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Tarantino 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 Croatian, američki filmski redatelj, nosilac novog senzibiliteta 1990-ih ( Pakleni šund )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Tony Tarantinob. 1940USAmerican film actor and director
- Quentin Tarantinob. 1963USAmerican filmmaker and actor (born 1963)
- Tarina Tarantinob. 1968American jewelry designer
- Massimo Tarantinob. 1971ITItalian footballer
- Luigi Tarantinob. 1972ITItalian fencer
- Ray Tarantinob. 1976ITItalian musician
- Nazzareno Tarantinob. 1979ITItalian footballer (born 1979)
- Javier Tarantinob. 1984ESSpanish footballer
- Lionel Tarantinob. 1988FRFrench ice hockey player
- Paul TarantinoUSfilmmaker
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 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,956 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4K | #7,733 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,338 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 650 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 287 | #4,550 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 276 | #28,330 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 181 | #17,870 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 181 | #17,805 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 60 | #22,899 |
| 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 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Tarantino mean, and where does it come from?
- A dialect of Neapolitan spoken in and around Taranto in Apulia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tarantino?
- A machine transcription gives /tɑɹɑnˈtinoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tarantino have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Tarantino, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tarantino.
- Where is Tarantino most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tarantino is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tarantino?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,158 people named Tarantino in 2010, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
- How common is Tarantino compared with other names?
- In Italy, Tarantino is the 309th 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/tarantinoThe 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, “Tarantino” — the 309th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.