Albano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Dal latino Albanus, 'di Alba'; anche richiamo a sant'Albano martire in Inghilterra
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: ISTAT, 2024
/albano/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Albano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mozambique than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 3.2Kfew records
- ITItaly≈1 in 4.9Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mozambique (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Dal latino Albanus, 'di Alba'; anche richiamo a sant'Albano martire in Inghilterra.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Albano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MZ Mozambique | #269 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Albano | 18 |
| BR Brazil | #665 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 3K | Albano | 130 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 1 | Albano | 67 |
| AO Angola | #237 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Albano | 25 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Albano | 49 |
| US United States | — | 5,860 | 1 in 57K | 5.9K | Albano | 167 |
| UY Uruguay | #294 | 2,099 | 1 in 1.6K | 2.1K | Albano | 27 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)Albano is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Latin Albanus, gentilicio de Alba; perhaps from albus 'blanco'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Italian, forma singular de Albani
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, lake, Italy
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, männl. Vom., italienische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Proveniente da Alba
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)- Pedro Nolasco Vergara Albanob. 1800CLChilean deputy, governor and farmer.[1
- Elías Fernández Albanob. 1845CLChilean politician (1845-1910)
- John Albanob. 1922USAmerican comics writer (1922–2005)
- Lou Albanob. 1933USAmerican professional wrestler, professional wrestling manager, and actor (1933-2009)
- Gianfranco Albanob. 1942ITItalian film director and television director
- Donatella Albanob. 1958ITItalian politician
- Pablo Albanob. 1967ARArgentine tennis player
- Corey Albanob. 1975USAmerican basketball player
- Davide Albanob. 1980ITItalian actor and dub actor
- Silvia Albanob. 1994ITItalian tennis player
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)64 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3K | #4,691 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2K | #5,113 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 253 | #32,873 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 55 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 46 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #32,873 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1 | #5,869 |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2008 | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- How do you pronounce Albano?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /albano/; in Portuguese /alˈba.nu/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Albano mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dal latino Albanus, 'di Alba'; anche richiamo a sant'Albano martire in Inghilterra.
- In which country does Albano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Albano in Mozambique, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled albano.
- Where is Albano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Albano is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though Mozambique holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Albano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,860 people named Albano in 2010, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Albano compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Albano is the 269th most common surname of 2,021 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/albanoThe 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, “Albano” — the 269th most common surname in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.