Andante
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a moderately slow tempo; faster than adagio but slower than moderato
Andante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 177K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 14M
- USUnited States≈1 in 20M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 177K (inferred from the name graph)
≈620 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a moderately slow tempo; faster than adagio but slower than moderato.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Andante is read
(measured from records)Andante is one spelling over 2 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.
- English59%
A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a moderately slow tempo; faster than adagio but slower than moderato.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish24%
walking, who roams, who wanders, errant
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Andante 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 177K | Andante | 25 |
| US United States | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 20M | Andante | 45 |
| CA Canada | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 14M | Andante | 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.
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)Andante is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, who roams, wanders
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, going, walking
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, ANDÁNTE adv. (Indică modul de executare a unei bucăți muzicale) Cu o mișcare rară, liniștită. ♦ (Substantivat, n.) (Parte dintr-o) compoziție muzicală concepută în această mișcare.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Latvian, Vidējā tempā
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Andante mean, and where does it come from?
- A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a moderately slow tempo; faster than adagio but slower than moderato. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Andante have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 618 people named Andante in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled andante.
- How common is the name Andante?
- Mondonomo estimates about 620 people in the Philippines have Andante as their first surname, about 1 in 177 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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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, “Andante”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.