Marcano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Spanish; of uncertain origin (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/markano/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Marcano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common surname. Marcano is also written Маркано in Cyrillic.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 290(inferred from the name graph)
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 1.3Kfew records
- CLChile≈1 in 6.3K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 292 (inferred from the name graph)
≈97,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Marcano in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Marcano
- Spanish:/markano/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Spanish; of uncertain origin. Possibly a habitational name from Marcano, a region of Margarita Island in the Caribbean, northeast of the mainland of Venezuela.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Marcano is found
(measured from records)Marcano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #51 | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 292 | 634 | Marcano | 113 |
| US United States | — | 4,256 | 1 in 78K | 4.8K | Marcano | 237 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Marcano | 48 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,065 | 1 in 69K | 3.1K | Marcano | 45 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #102 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Marcano | 50 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #484 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Marcano | 26 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 443 | 1 in 7.6K | 443 | Marcano | 11 |
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)Marcano is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, third-person plural present indicative of marcare
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)- Rita Morenob. 1931USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican actress (born 1931)
- María Pérez Díazb. 1989USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican judoka (1989-)
- Darwin Machísb. 1993VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan association football player
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Marcano come from?
- Spanish; of uncertain origin. Possibly a habitational name from Marcano, a region of Margarita Island in the Caribbean, northeast of the mainland of Venezuela. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Marcano?
- In Spanish /markano/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Marcano mean?
- Recorded meaning: Spanish; of uncertain origin.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Marcano?
- Mondonomo estimates about 97 thousand people named Marcano in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marcano. After it come United States, Chile, Brazil and Puerto Rico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Marcano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,256 people named Marcano in 2010, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
- How common is Marcano compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Marcano is the 51st most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marcanoThe 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, “Marcano” — ranked 2253rd in Venezuela (asosab). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.