Paisano
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a fellow countryman
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/paisano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paisano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 148K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- CRCosta Rica1 in 22K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈740 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Among Italian Americans and Americans of Italian descent: a fellow Italian or Italian-American; a fellow ethnic Italian.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Paisano is read
(measured from records)Paisano 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.
- Spanish71%
a fellow countryman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English21%
Among Italian Americans and Americans of Italian descent: a fellow Italian or Italian-American; a fellow ethnic Italian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Paisano 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 | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Paisano | 14 |
| HN Honduras | #602 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Paisano | 9 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Paisano | 12 |
| US United States | — | 304 | 1 in 1.1M | 312 | Paisano | 93 |
| CR Costa Rica | #553 | 231 | 1 in 22K | 231 | Paisano | 8 |
| NI Nicaragua | #826 | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Paisano | 8 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Paisano | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Paisano 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 Italian, var. regional de Paesano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In nap, a fellow countryman or compatriot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, a fellow countryman; a compatriot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, fellow countryman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 312 | #68,029 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 304 | #65,244 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 231 | #923 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 208 | #83,965 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Paisano come from?
- Among Italian Americans and Americans of Italian descent: a fellow Italian or Italian-American; a fellow ethnic Italian. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Paisano?
- In the etymology graph, Paesano is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Paisano?
- A machine transcription gives /paisano/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Paisano mean?
- In Spanish, a fellow countryman
- In which country does Paisano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 740 people named Paisano in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paisano.
- Where is Paisano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paisano is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Paisano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 304 people named Paisano in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Paisano compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Paisano is the 553rd most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paisanoThe 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, “Paisano” — the 553rd most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.