Bianco

surname · Latin script

Meaning: white (bright and colourless/colorless)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/biˈɑŋkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bianco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 22K
  • GLGreenland1 in 662

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)

≈28,000 people, est.

Sources
376 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 662 (inferred from the name graph)

Greenland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

white (bright and colourless/colorless)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bianco 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.

Where Bianco is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈28,000 est.≈1 in 2.2KlistedBianco104
US United States15,2781 in 22K15KBianco376
AR Argentina6,1751 in 7.4K6.2K—4
BR Brazil≈3,400 est.≈1 in 63K268—7
FR France≈2,900 est.≈1 in 23K320—6
CH Switzerland7041 in 12K704Bianco23
UY Uruguay6451 in 5.3K645—1
GL Greenland871 in 66287—3

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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bianco is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Biancò, Bíanco

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bianco 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 Italian, do germ. blank, branco, claro; apelido físico ou patronímico

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Bianchi

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • Lucente

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In ist, white

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Croatian, 1. bank. načelno prihvaćena obveza, čiji se opseg kasnije utvrđuje [ bianco kredit osobni kredit bez stvarnog pokrića] 2. pristanak dan »na neviđeno«; blanko

    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)

14001600180020002200Andrea Bianco, b. 1500Umberto Zanotti Bianco, b. 1889Lucien Bianco, b. 1930Gerardo Bianco, b. 1931Jean-Louis Bianco, b. 1943Enzo Bianco, b. 1951Scott Bianco, b. 1967Paolo Bianco, b. 1977Esmé Bianco, b. 1982Alessandro Bianco, b. 2002

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)

FormalDear Bianco,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 47 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Bianco
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201015K#2,381
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020008.2K#3,961
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020207.7K#4,454
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—6.2K—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024704#1,790
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—645—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991320—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)202187—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)201986—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)201885—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)202084—
GL GreenlandStatistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1)201583—

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 Bianco mean, and where does it come from?
white (bright and colourless/colorless) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Bianco?
A machine transcription gives /biˈɑŋkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Bianco have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Bianco in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bianco.
Where is Bianco most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bianco is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 662 people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bianco?
In the United States, the national register counted 15,278 people named Bianco in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.

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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, “Bianco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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