Moñaco

surname · Latin script

Moñaco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname for someone of monkish habits or appearance, or an occupational name for a servant employed at a monastery, from Italian monaco ‘monk’ (from Greek monakhos ‘monk’, ‘solitary’).

  • UYUruguay1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 13K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 21K

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.

United States (measured from records)

8,198 people, 2010

Record sources
160 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mónaco in AR Argentina, ES Spain, UY Uruguay and Monaco in BR Brazil.

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)
Derivation of Moñaco: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Moñaco
  1. Italianmonaco(measured from records)
  2. Greekmonakhos(measured from records)

nickname for someone of monkish habits or appearance, or an occupational name for a servant employed at a monastery, from Italian monaco ‘monk’ (from Greek monakhos ‘monk’, ‘solitary’). Monachos is also found as a Greek family name. Compare English Monk.

Cited for this meaning 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Moñaco 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 Moñaco is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8,1981 in 41K8.2K—160
AR Argentina3,4101 in 13K3.4KMónaco75
BR Brazil2,8211 in 75K2.8KMonaco116
CH Switzerland4011 in 21K401—14
ES Spain2971 in 168K297Mónaco37
UY Uruguay2791 in 12K279Mónaco23
BE Belgium1661 in 71K166—8

8,198 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Moñaco is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Monaco, United Kingdom, France

    Languages: English, Arabic, German

    Also written Monaco, Mónaco, Mônaco, Monacò, Mônacô

  • Indonesian name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Monako, Monaco, Mônaco, Mónaco

  • Swahili given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United States

    Also written Monako, Monacò, Mónaco, Monaco

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Moñaco under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Moñaco mean, and where does it come from?
nickname for someone of monkish habits or appearance, or an occupational name for a servant employed at a monastery, from Italian monaco ‘monk’ (from Greek monakhos ‘monk’, ‘solitary’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 3 other sources.
In which country does Moñaco have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 8.2 thousand people named Moñaco, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Moñaco most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Moñaco is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Moñaco?
In the United States, the national register counted 8,198 people named Moñaco in 2010, about 1 in 41 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, “Moñaco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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