Riso
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: pleasant laugh
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɹisoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Riso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 78K
- UYUruguay1 in 16K
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)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
laughter
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Riso is read(measured from records)
Riso is one spelling over 4 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.
- English38%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Riso in English.
- Spanish32%
pleasant laugh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian8.5%
laughter, laugh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French8.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Riso in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Riso 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Riso | 98 |
| BR Brazil | 1,644 | 1 in 129K | 1.6K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 753 | 1 in 442K | 753 | Riso | 79 |
| AR Argentina | 585 | 1 in 78K | 585 | Riso | 48 |
| FR France | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 173K | 43 | Riso | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 207 | 1 in 16K | 207 | Riso | 19 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Riso | 9 |
| EE Estonia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 13 | — | 4 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the ee-stat-nimed 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Riso is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, laughter
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of rīsus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In goh, giant
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francesco Risob. 1826ITpolitician
- Hans Risob. 1889DEGerman association football player
- Armando Risob. 1909ITItalian association football player
- Arturo Chairesb. 1937MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer (1937-2020)
- Gianni Risob. 1952ITItalian disc jockey and blogger
- Mario Risob. 1967ITItalian composer
- Stéphanie Risob. 1976FREuropean Union civil servant of French nationality
- Sebastiano Risob. 1983ITItalian film director and screenwriter
- Marc Risob. 1989FRFrench actor
- Francesca Risoactress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #5,850 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 753 | #30,889 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 747 | #29,728 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 736 | #33,336 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 585 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 207 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 16 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Where does the name Riso come from?
- laughter Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- How do you pronounce Riso?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹisoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Riso mean?
- In Spanish, pleasant laugh
- In which country does Riso have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Riso in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled riso.
- Where is Riso most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Riso is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Riso?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,644 people named Riso, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Riso?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/risoThe 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, “Riso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.