The Volante surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 585 people carried this name — #37,955 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 500,000 people counted. That is up 6% from 550 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Volante surname
Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Volante.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Volante» (English), 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 143 people named Volante 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.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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 76 people named Volante.
38 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 départements, most often Paris.
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
26 people named Volante live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
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 Volante.
- Voiselle 128 · U.S. census
- Voisin 1,019 · U.S. census
- Voisine 987 · U.S. census
- Voisinet 225 · U.S. census
- Vola 149 · U.S. census
- Voland 456 · U.S. census
- Volf 189 · U.S. census
- Volk 9,126 · U.S. census
- Volkmann 1,135 · U.S. census
- Volland 416 · U.S. census
- Volle 447 · U.S. census
- Vollmar 1,151 · U.S. census
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