Morato surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Morato surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 476 people carried this name — #45,026 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 625,000 people counted. That is up 42% from 335 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 835 people named Morato 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 map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 314
Entre Ríos 169
Corrientes 110
Santa Fe 105
City of Buenos Aires 62
Tucumán 31
Mendoza 28
Salta 16

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 143 people named Morato.

58 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 22 départements, most often Pyrénées-Orientales.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 58
Pyrénées-Orientales 21
Bouches-du-Rhône 11
Paris 10
Hauts-de-Seine 9
Hautes-Alpes 4
Aveyron 4
Loire 4
Yvelines 3

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

21 people named Morato live in Switzerland.

They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Vaud 6
Lucerne 4
St. Gallen 4
Zurich 4
Geneva 3

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.

Who carried it

People named Morato,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Juan José Morato Caldeiro
    Juan José Morato Caldeiro 1864–1938 · writer
  • Fulvio Pellegrino Morato 1483–1549 · writer
  • Fulvio Pellegrino Morato 1483–1548 · writer
  • Fulvio Pellegrino Morato 1483–1547 · writer
  • Antonio Morato 1903–1989 · painter
  • Nada Morato 1927–2023 · teacher

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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Surnames next to Morato.

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