Given name & surname
Moreno
Moreno is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Spanish, and Tagalog.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Moreno through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 459 as a first name in 2020; 192,910 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Moreno’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Moreno as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form Brown. In Greek usage, Moreno as a surname is a transliteration of Μορένο.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Moreno
- Moreno TorricelliItalian footballer and managerborn 1970
- Moreno ArgentinItalian cyclistborn 1960
- Moreno MoserRoad racing cyclistborn 1990
- Moreno HoflandDutch road bicycle racerborn 1991
- Moreno ManniniItalian footballer (born 1962)
- Moreno De Pauwcyclistborn 1991
- Moreno FerrarioItalian footballer and managerborn 1959
- Moreno CostanzoSwiss-Italian footballerborn 1988
- Moreno LongoItalian football manager and former football playerborn 1976
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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