Damiano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Damian or Damien
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Damiano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 4.6K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 9.3K
- PEPeru≈1 in 23K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Damian or Damien
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Damiano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Damiano | 10 |
| IT Italy | #729 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | 864 | Damiano | 177 |
| US United States | — | 2,880 | 1 in 116K | 2.9K | Damiano | 143 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Damiano | 40 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 158K | 260 | Damiano | 73 |
| UY Uruguay | #879 | 734 | 1 in 4.6K | 734 | Damiano | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 285 | 1 in 29K | 285 | Damiano | 44 |
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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Damiano 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, Dal gr. Damianos, da damáō 'domare'; etimologia incerta secondo la tradizione.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In French, Forme italienne de Damien, du grec Damianos; saint Damien le 26 septembre.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Italian, forma italiana de Damianus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, männl. Vom., italienische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Colui che sottomette
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 Damianob. 1480PTPortuguese chess player
- Celestine Damianob. 1911USAmerican prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (1911–1967)
- Bernard Damianob. 1926ITItalian painter (1926-2000)
- Gerard Damianob. 1928USAmerican pornographic film director (1928-2008)
- Angelo Damianob. 1938ITItalian trackcyclist, 1964 Olympic gold tandem
- Cesare Damianob. 1948ITItalian politician
- Christian Damianob. 1950FRFrench association football coach
- Daniele Damianob. 1961ITItalian musician
- Alfredo Damianob. 1963BRBrazilian actor
- Jennifer Damianob. 1991USactress and singer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 864 | #44 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 600 | #17,988 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 260 | #21,551 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 198 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 192 | #25,581 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 25 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #17,988 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2022 | 1 | #9,737 |
Reference works 7
- 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
- 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 Damiano mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Damian or Damien Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Damiano?
- In the etymology graph, Demyan and Damianos are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Damiano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Damiano in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled damiano.
- Where is Damiano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Damiano is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.6 thousand people — even though Tanzania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Damiano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,880 people named Damiano in 2010, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
- How common is Damiano compared with other names?
- In Italy, Damiano is the 729th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Damiano?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/damianoThe 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, “Damiano” — the 729th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.