Serafino
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Masculine form of }Seraphina (see main dictionary)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɝɑˈfinoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Serafino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 472K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 15K
- UYUruguay1 in 89K
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
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Masculine form of }Seraphina (see main dictionary).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Serafino 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 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 6 | Serafino | 47 |
| US United States | 705 | 1 in 472K | 705 | Serafino | 184 |
| PH Philippines | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 229K | — | Serafino | 19 |
| BR Brazil | 449 | 1 in 472K | 449 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 359 | 1 in 127K | 359 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 51 | 1 in 165K | 51 | Serafino | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | 38 | 1 in 89K | 38 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Serafino | 1 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Serafino 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, seraph
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Dall’ebr. śerāfīm, 'serpente' (serafino); nome di uno dei nove cori angelici.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, In ebraico = C serpente D . I1 primo dei nove cori angelici. 12 ottobre e 3 settembre. Nel cogn. Raffini (veneto-friulalio) concorre con
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, forma ital. de Seraphinus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Serafini
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Natale Serafinob. 1861Roman Catholic bishop
- Carlos Serafinob. 1926ARArgentinian actor
- Domenico Serafinob. 1936ITItalian association football referee
- Sophie Serafinob. 1980GBviolinist and composer
- Chiara Serafinob. 1989ITItalian association football player
- Edoardo Serafinob. 1994ITvolleyball player
- Adelaide SerafinoITItalian association football player
- Vincenzo SerafinoITItalian Roman Catholic bishop
- Edoardo Serafinobotanist
- Loris SerafinoKWresearcher
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 50 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 238 | #34,154 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 68 | #24,049 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 27 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 27 | #101,516 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 7 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 6 | #1,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #34,154 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1980 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 2 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1964 | 1 | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
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
- How do you pronounce Serafino?
- A machine transcription gives /sɝɑˈfinoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Serafino mean, and where does it come from?
- Masculine form of }Seraphina (see main dictionary). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Serafino?
- In the etymology graph, Serafim is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Serafino have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Serafino in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled serafino.
- How common is the name Serafino?
- In the United States, the national register counted 705 people named Serafino in 2010, about 1 in 472 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Serafino?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/serafinoThe 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, “Serafino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.