Tavano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do lat. tafanus/tabanus, tavão; figurado, pessoa insolente
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tɑˈvɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tavano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 141K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 240K
- BRBrazil1 in 508K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 1 (measured from records)
- 1 in 141K (inferred from the name graph)
428 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Argentina
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)
do lat. tafanus/tabanus, tavão; figurado, pessoa insolente
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tavano 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 428 | 1 in 777K | 428 | — |
| BR Brazil | 417 | 1 in 508K | 417 | — |
| AR Argentina | 322 | 1 in 141K | 322 | — |
| CH Switzerland | 35 | 1 in 240K | 35 | — |
| BE Belgium | 22 | 1 in 533K | 22 | — |
428 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
Tavano 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 nap, mosquito
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Carmine Tavanob. 1926ITItalian politician (1926-2013)
- Sergio Tavanob. 1928ITItalian archaeologist and art historian (1928-)
- Fernand Tavanob. 1933FRFrench racing driver (1933–1984)
- Bruno Tavanob. 1941ARArgentinian politician
- Anna Tavanob. 1948FRFrench Paralympian (1948-2012)
- Francesco Tavanob. 1979ITItalian footballer
- Salvatore Tavanob. 1980ITItalian racing driver
- Fabrizio Tavanob. 1993MXMexican association football player
- Asya Tavanob. 2002ITItalian judoka
- Lorena Tavanoresearcher
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 428 | #49,177 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 425 | #47,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 421 | #53,103 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 417 | #20,032 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 322 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 35 | #24,368 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 22 | #44,812 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Tavano?
- A machine transcription gives /tɑˈvɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tavano mean?
- Recorded meaning: do lat. tafanus/tabanus, tavão; figurado, pessoa insolente
- In which country does Tavano have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 428 people named Tavano, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tavano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tavano is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 141 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tavano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 428 people named Tavano in 2010, about 1 in 777 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tavanoThe 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, “Tavano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.