Cuomo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: probably from a shortened form of Cuosemo, a Neapolitan variant of the Italian male personal name Cosimo (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kwomo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Cuomo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Bermuda it is the 59th most common surname.
- ITItaly≈1 in 4.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 56K
- ARArgentina1 in 73K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Cuomo
- Spanish:/kwomo/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/ˈkwɔ.mo/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)probably from a shortened form of Cuosemo, a Neapolitan variant of the Italian male personal name Cosimo.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Cuomo is read
(measured from records)Cuomo is one spelling over 3 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.
- English61%
probably from a shortened form of Cuosemo, a Neapolitan variant of the Italian male personal name Cosimo.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Mario, US politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cuomo in Spanish.
- Italian13%
sobrenome napolitano, redução de Cosimo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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 the surname Cuomo is found
(measured from records)Cuomo 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 | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | listed | Cuomo | 65 |
| US United States | — | 2,424 | 1 in 137K | 2.4K | Cuomo | 280 |
| AR Argentina | — | 621 | 1 in 73K | 621 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Cuomo | 61 |
| FR France | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 191K | 36 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 61 | 1 in 56K | 61 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Cuomo | 1 |
| BM Bermuda | #59 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Cuomo | 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; the xinhua-italian-manual register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mario Cuomob. 1932USGovernor of New York from 1983 to 1994
- Andrew Cuomob. 1957USGovernor of New York from 2011 to 2021
- Chris Cuomob. 1970USAmerican journalist
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cuomo mean, and where does it come from?
- probably from a shortened form of Cuosemo, a Neapolitan variant of the Italian male personal name Cosimo. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Cuomo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /kwomo/; in Italian /ˈkwɔ.mo/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Cuomo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Cuomo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cuomo. After it come United States, Argentina, United Kingdom and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Cuomo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,424 people named Cuomo in 2010, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.
- How common is Cuomo compared with other names?
- In Bermuda, Cuomo is the 59th most common surname of 6,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cuomoThe 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, “Cuomo” — the 59th most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.