Contin

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Contin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: redução dialetal setentrional de Contino.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 57K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 159K
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 34K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,700 people, est.

Sources
64 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Portuguese

redução dialetal setentrional de Contino

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where in the world(measured from records)

Contin 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 Contin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈6,700 est.≈1 in 208K—Contin1
BR Brazil—1,3351 in 159K1.3KContin64
IT Italy—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 57KlistedContin29
AR Argentina—8001 in 57K800Contin37
FR France—≈340 est.≈1 in 200K33—1
DO Dominican Republic#735≈310 est.≈1 in 34K—Contin16
UY Uruguay—721 in 47K72Contin6

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 italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Contin is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Contín

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Belgium

    Also written Contín

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Contín

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Контен, Contín

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Contin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, Variante di Conti

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In Catalan, inflection of contar:

    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)

1400160018002000Bernardino Contin, b. 1530Antonio Contin, b. 1566Tommaso Contin, b. 1570Francesco Contin, b. 1585Tommaso Antonio Contin, b. 1723Corrado Contin, b. 1922Pierre Contin, b. 1948Daniel Contin, b. 1962Alexis Contin, b. 1986

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 18 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Contin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.3K#7,112
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—800—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195173—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—72—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194165—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196157—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198153—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197147—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199133—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193132—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192129—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191124—

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

What does the name Contin mean?
Recorded meaning: redução dialetal setentrional de Contino
In which country does Contin have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.7 thousand people named Contin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled contin.
How common is the name Contin?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,335 people named Contin, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
How common is Contin compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Contin is the 735th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Contin” — the 735th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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