The Fornaro surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 378 people carried this name — #54,530 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 769,200 people counted. That is up 4% from 363 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Fornaro surname
A surname originating as an occupation.
From fornaro, variant of fornaio (“baker”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Fornaro» (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 210 people named Fornaro 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 Switzerland’s population statistics
101 people named Fornaro live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 53 people named Fornaro.
26 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Lot-et-Garonne.
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.
Who carried it
People named Fornaro,
with a public archive behind them.
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Cosimo Fornaro 1928–1992 · writer
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Cosimo Fornaro 1928–1992 · writer
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Italo Fornaro 1941–2017 · teacher
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Italo Fornaro 1941–2017 · teacher
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Milton Fornaro 1947– · screenwriter
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Pasquale Fornaro 1949– · historian
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Fornaro.
- Formento 205 · U.S. census
- Formica 1,393 · U.S. census
- Formisano 500 · U.S. census
- Formosa 528 · U.S. census
- Fornara 102 · U.S. census
- Fornari 295 · U.S. census
- Fornelli 256 · U.S. census
- Forner 632 · U.S. census
- Forneris 196 · U.S. census
- Fornero 149 · U.S. census
- Fornes 566 · U.S. census
- Forni 589 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Fornaro is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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