The Rosano surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 924 people carried this name — #26,422 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 322,600 people counted. That is up 4% from 886 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Rosano surname
A surname transferred from the place name.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Rosano» (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 812 people named Rosano 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 116 people named Rosano.
46 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
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
86 people named Rosano 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.
Who carried it
People named Rosano,
with a public archive behind them.
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Pietro Rosano 1846–1903 · politician
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Ilana Yoffe 1941– · physician
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Aldo Rosano 1963– · statistician
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Rosano.
- Ros 2,213 · U.S. census
- Rosa 33,521 · U.S. census
- Rosada 185 · U.S. census
- Rosado 26,998 · U.S. census
- Rosamond 875 · U.S. census
- Rosan 144 · U.S. census
- Rosar 209 · U.S. census
- Rosas 44,938 · U.S. census
- Rosati 2,900 · U.S. census
- Rosato 2,565 · U.S. census
- Rose 153,397 · U.S. census
- Rosel 694 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Rosano is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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