The Degano surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 103 people carried this name — #147,095 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 2,500,000 people counted.
What the name means
The meaning of the Degano surname
A surname from Venetan.
Borrowed from Venetan degano (“deacon”), an occupational surname.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Degano» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 572 people named Degano live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 135 people named Degano.
60 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Saône-et-Loire.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
29 people named Degano live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Degano.
- Defour 243 · U.S. census
- Defrain 504 · U.S. census
- Defrance 785 · U.S. census
- Dega 118 · U.S. census
- Degan 687 · U.S. census
- Degand 290 · U.S. census
- Dege 209 · U.S. census
- Degen 1,997 · U.S. census
- Degeorge 2,443 · U.S. census
- Degiovanni 181 · U.S. census
- Degrace 576 · U.S. census
- Degraeve 194 · U.S. census
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